13-letter words containing l, o, a, n, s, h
- ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
- exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
- false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.
- fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
- fashion plate — a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
- flash fiction — very short works of fiction that are typically no longer than a couple of pages and may be as short as one paragraph.
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- galah session — an occasion on which people from remote areas converse with each other by radio
- golan heights — a range of hills in the Middle East, possession of which is disputed between Israel and Syria: under Syrian control until 1967 when they were stormed by Israeli forces; Jewish settlements have since been established. Highest peak: 2224 m (7297 ft)
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- hand controls — a set of controls in some cars, operated by hand, that have the same function as the accelerator, brake, and clutch pedals
- handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
- hematosalpinx — (medicine) A medical condition involving bleeding into the Fallopian tubes.
- hilariousness — The characteristic of being hilarious; hilarity.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- hold in leash — to control; curb; restrain
- honorableness — The property of being honorable.
- hospitalizing — Present participle of hospitalize.
- house journal — a publication produced for the employees of a company or organization in order to keep them updated with news and events
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
- hyperpersonal — Very highly personal.
- hypnoanalysis — a method of psychoanalysis in which a patient is put into hypnosis in an attempt to secure analytic data, free associations, and early emotional reactions.
- infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
- inhospitality — lack of hospitality; inhospitable attitude toward or treatment of visitors, guests, etc.
- john marshall — Alfred, 1842–1924, English economist.
- joseph stalin — Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
- lamellaphones — Plural form of lamellaphone.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- leishmaniosis — Alt form leishmaniasis.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- loathsomeness — The property or nature that gives rise to revulsion, that inspires loathing.
- lonely hearts — of or for people seeking counseling or companionship to bring love or romance into their lives: a lonely-hearts column in the newspaper.
- lonely-hearts — of or for people seeking counseling or companionship to bring love or romance into their lives: a lonely-hearts column in the newspaper.
- losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.
- magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- mesencephalon — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- metallophones — Plural form of metallophone.
- necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- non-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.