13-letter words containing i, n, t, h, e
- hatemongering — The behaviour of a hatemonger; the spreading of hatred.
- haute cuisine — fine or gourmet cooking; food preparation as an art.
- haven't lived — If you tell someone that they haven't lived unless they experience a particular thing, you are telling them that thing is extremely good and should be experienced.
- headline rate — a basic rate of inflation, taxation, etc, before distorting factors have been removed
- health-giving — conducive to health; salutary
- heart monitor — a machine that registers the activity of the heart
- heart-rending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
- heart-warming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
- heat equation — a partial differential equation the solution of which gives the distribution of temperature in a region as a function of space and time when the temperature at the boundaries, the initial distribution of temperature, and the physical properties of the medium are specified.
- heating plant — a building or facility containing a boiler or furnace that provides heat to a building or a number of buildings
- heating power — power that can be used to heat something
- heavenly city — the abode of God and His saints; heaven. Rev. 21:2.
- heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
- heavy petting — Informal. intense petting that involves mutual stimulation of the genitals but not sexual intercourse.
- heir apparent — an heir whose right is indefeasible, provided he or she survives the ancestor.
- helianthemums — Plural form of helianthemum.
- helianthine b — methyl orange.
- heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
- hellenization — to make Greek in character.
- helminthiasis — a disease caused by parasitic worms in the intestines.
- helminthology — the scientific study of worms, especially of parasitic worms.
- hemagglutinin — A substance, such as a viral protein, that causes hemagglutination.
- hematogenesis — hematopoiesis.
- hematosalpinx — (medicine) A medical condition involving bleeding into the Fallopian tubes.
- hemiterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C5 skeleton.
- heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
- heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
- herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
- herborization — the act or process of herborizing
- herd immunity — the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.
- herd instinct — the impulse or tendency toward clustering or acting in a group, especially the presumed instinct toward or need for gregariousness and conformity.
- hereditaments — Plural form of hereditament.
- hereditarians — Plural form of hereditarian.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
- hertzian wave — an electromagnetic wave produced by oscillations in an electric circuit, as a radio or radar wave: first investigated by H. R. Hertz.
- hessian boots — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- heterochronic — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
- heterogeneity — the quality or state of being heterogeneous; composition from dissimilar parts; disparateness.
- heterogenesis — Also, heterogeny [het-uh-roj-uh-nee] /ˌhɛt əˈrɒdʒ ə ni/ (Show IPA). alternation of generations, especially the alternation of parthenogenetic and sexual generations.
- heterogenetic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterogenesis.
- heteropolitan — a heterosexual man, typically living in a city, whose attitudes and interests are regarded as masculine but not excessively so
- hexactinellid — a type of sponge characterized by their (usually) six siliceous spicules or rays
- hexamethonium — a compound, C 10 H 24 N 2 , used in the treatment of severe hypertension to lower blood pressure and increase blood flow by blocking transmission of nerve impulses that constrict blood vessels.