13-letter words containing l, o, n, e
- great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
- green vitriol — a bluish-green, crystalline, saline-tasting, water-soluble heptahydrated solid, FeSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of other iron salts, in water purification, fertilizer, inks, pigments, tanning, photography, and in medicine in the treatment of anemia.
- gregor mendel — Gregor Johann [greg-er yoh-hahn;; German grey-gawr yoh-hahn] /ˈgrɛg ər ˈyoʊ hɑn;; German ˈgreɪ gɔr ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1822–84, Austrian monk and botanist.
- grimes golden — a yellow variety of apple that ripens in late autumn.
- grossglockner — a mountain in S Austria: highest peak in the Hohe Tauern range. 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
- ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
- ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- gynaecologist — (UK, Canada, dated in US) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.
- gynecological — the branch of medical science that deals with the health maintenance and diseases of women, especially of the reproductive organs. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
- gynecologists — Plural form of gynecologist.
- haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- halotolerance — The quality or degree of being halotolerant.
- hand in glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-in-glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
- heartbrokenly — In a heartbroken manner.
- heavenly body — celestial object: star, planet, etc.
- heilong jiang — Amur.
- helen of troy — Also called Helen of Troy. Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- 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.).
- heliographing — Present participle of heliograph.
- hell on earth — torment, horrendous experience
- hellenization — to make Greek in character.
- helminthology — the scientific study of worms, especially of parasitic worms.
- hematosalpinx — (medicine) A medical condition involving bleeding into the Fallopian tubes.
- heteropolitan — a heterosexual man, typically living in a city, whose attitudes and interests are regarded as masculine but not excessively so
- hevelian halo — a faint white halo with an angular radius of 90° that is occasionally seen around the sun or the moon, thought to be caused by the reflection and refraction of sunlight by ice crystals.
- 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
- hold the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- holy alliance — a league formed by the principal sovereigns of Europe in 1815 with the professed object of promoting Christian brotherhood but the practical object of repressing democratic revolutions and institutions. The English and Turkish rulers and Pope Pius VII did not join the league.
- homeoteleuton — a series of words with the same or similar endings.
- homeschooling — a school set up in the home.
- homofullerene — (chemistry) Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the insertion of a methylene group between adjacent carbon atoms.
- homogeneously — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
- homogenetical — of, involving or relating to homogeny
- homologoumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- honey gilding — gilding of ceramics with a mixture of gold leaf and honey, later fired to fix the gold.
- honorableness — The property of being honorable.
- horned lizard — an insectivorous iguanid lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of western North America, having hornlike spines on the head and a flattened body covered with spiny scales.
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- hornswogglers — Plural form of hornswoggler.
- hotel manager — sb who runs a hotel
- house counsel — a lawyer drawing a full-time salary from a corporation that he or she represents.
- house journal — a publication produced for the employees of a company or organization in order to keep them updated with news and events