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13-letter words containing l, y, e, h, o

  • hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
  • holiday-maker — vacationer.
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • hollywood bed — a bed consisting of a metal frame, box spring, mattress, and headboard, but lacking a footboard.
  • 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.
  • holy mackerel — astonishment
  • holyroodhouse — a royal palace in Edinburgh in Scotland: official residence of the Queen when in Scotland; begun in 1501 by James IV of Scotland; scene of the murder of David Rizzio in 1566
  • home assembly — assembly at home of something supplied in pieces
  • home delivery — delivery to one's home
  • homiletically — In a homiletic fashion.
  • homogeneously — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
  • homopolymeric — relating to or made of homopolymers
  • homosexuality — sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own sex.
  • honey gilding — gilding of ceramics with a mixture of gold leaf and honey, later fired to fix the gold.
  • horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
  • hourly worker — an employee who is paid an hourly rate rather than a fixed salary
  • howler monkey — Central American simian variety
  • human ecology — ecology (def 4).
  • 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.
  • hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
  • hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydrochloride — a salt, especially of an alkaloid, formed by the direct union of hydrochloric acid with an organic base that makes the organic constituent more soluble.
  • hydroelectric — pertaining to the generation and distribution of electricity derived from the energy of falling water or any other hydraulic source.
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
  • hydroxylamine — an unstable, weakly basic, crystalline compound, NH 3 O, used as a reducing agent, analytical reagent, and chemical intermediate.
  • hydroxymethyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent radical HO-CH2-.
  • hygrometrical — Alternative form of hygrometric.
  • hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
  • hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
  • hyperlordosis — Particularly severe lordosis.
  • hypermobility — An excess amount of elasticity in a bodily joint.
  • hypermorality — conformity to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct.
  • hypermotility — excessive motility of the stomach or intestine (opposed to hypomotility).
  • hyperpersonal — Very highly personal.
  • hyperpolarize — to increase the difference in electric potential across (a cell membrane).
  • hyperrational — characterized by excessive rationality
  • hypervelocity — extremely high velocity, as of projectiles, space vehicles, or accelerated nuclear particles.
  • hypocalcaemia — (medical) alternative spelling of hypocalcemia.
  • hypocalcaemic — of or relating to hypocalcaemia
  • hypochlorites — Plural form of hypochlorite.
  • hypoglycaemia — (medical) alternative spelling of hypoglycemia.
  • hypoglycaemic — Alternative spelling of hypoglycemic.
  • hypolipidemia — (medicine) A lower than normal concentration of lipids in the blood.
  • hypolipidemic — That reduces the concentration of lipid in blood serum.
  • hypometabolic — Relating to hypometabolism.
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