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13-letter words containing l, h, e, r

  • pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • pyrheliometer — an instrument for measuring the total intensity of the sun's energy radiation.
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • quiller-couch — Sir Arthur Thomas ("Q") 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.
  • r-methodology — any statistical methodology in psychology that is contrasted with Q-methodology
  • radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • ratchet wheel — a wheel, with teeth on the edge, into which a pawl drops or catches, as to prevent reversal of motion or convert reciprocating motion into rotatory motion.
  • rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
  • reading light — any small electric light that you use for reading. You can usually move it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading. It can be attached to a wall or shelf in the home, or be above your head inside an aircraft or other vehicle.
  • reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
  • record holder — sb officially recorded as best at sth
  • reel of three — (in Scottish country dancing) a figure-of-eight movement danced by three people
  • reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • reform school — reformatory (def 2).
  • regular graph — (mathematics)   A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
  • rehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • rehabilitator — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
  • remythologize — to mythologize anew, to make a new mythological system out of (an existing one)
  • replenishable — able to be replenished
  • replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
  • retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
  • rheologically — in a rheological manner
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • richter scale — a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake.
  • right fielder — the player whose position is right field.
  • right to life — When people talk about an unborn baby's right to life, they mean that a baby has the right to be born, even if it has a severe disability or if its mother does not want it.
  • right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
  • ring the bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
  • river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
  • rochelle salt — a white crystalline double salt, sodium potassium tartrate, used in Seidlitz powder. Formula: KNaC4H4O6.4H2O
  • roller hockey — a game similar to ice hockey played on roller skates.
  • rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
  • royal charter — authorization by the monarchy
  • rule of three — the method of finding the fourth term in a proportion when three terms are given.
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