13-letter words containing n, o, s, h, r
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- disinhibitory — (esp of a drug) causing temporary loss of inhibition
- do the honors — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- dodecahedrons — Plural form of dodecahedron.
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
- dragon's head — any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
- draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
- drongo shrike — any insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics, having a glossy black plumage, a forked tail, and a stout bill
- drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
- dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
- dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
- dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
- earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
- east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
- eastern shore — the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, including parts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- electrophones — Plural form of electrophone.
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
- enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- ethnographers — Plural form of ethnographer.
- ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
- ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
- exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
- exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
- false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.
- fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
- fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
- fisher of men — an evangelist
- floor cushion — a cushion placed on the floor of a room for people to sit on
- flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
- forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
- french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
- french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
- go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
- golden shiner — a small, silvery freshwater minnow, Notemigonus crysoleucas, native to eastern North America and introduced into western North America: often used as live bait in sport fishing.
- golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.