13-letter words containing n, a, s, r
- house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
- house-trained — housebroken.
- house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
- hudson strait — a strait connecting Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. 450 miles (725 km) long; 100 miles (160 km) wide.
- humanitarians — Plural form of humanitarian.
- hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
- hunter trials — a test for hunters held under the auspices of a hunt, in which the course is laid with obstacles to simulate actual hunting conditions.
- 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.
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- hydrodynamics — the branch of fluid dynamics that deals with liquids, including hydrostatics and hydrokinetics.
- hymenopterans — Plural form of hymenopteran.
- hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
- hyperpersonal — Very highly personal.
- hypersalinity — an excess of salt in a saline solution
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- hysteranthous — relating to a plant whose flowers open before its leaves
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- idiosyncratic — pertaining to the nature of idiosyncrasy, or something peculiar to an individual: The best minds are idiosyncratic and unpredictable as they follow the course of scientific discovery.
- illiberalness — The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
- illustrations — Plural form of illustration.
- imaginariness — The state of being imaginary.
- impartialness — The quality of being impartial.
- imperseverant — lacking the power to perceive
- impersonalise — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- impersonalism — the practice of maintaining impersonal relations with individuals or groups.
- impersonality — absence of human character or of the traits associated with the human character: He feared the impersonality of a mechanized world.
- impersonalize — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impersonation — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impersonators — Plural form of impersonator.
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- improvisation — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
- in harm's way — If someone is put in harm's way, they are caused to be in a dangerous situation.
- in medias res — in the middle of things.
- in real terms — You can also talk about the cost or value of something in real terms.
- in sb's favor — If someone makes a judgment in your favor, they say that you are right about something.
- in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- inaugurations — Plural form of inauguration.
- incense cedar — any of several coniferous trees of the genus Libocedrus (or Calocedrus), especially L. decurrens, of the western U.S., growing to a height of 150 feet (50 meters).
- income stream — a flow of money into a business
- inconsiderate — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- inconversable — (obsolete) uncommunicative; reserved.
- incorporators — one of the signers of the articles or certificate of legal incorporation.
- incurableness — The state or condition of being incurable.