13-letter words containing n, o, s, h
- 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.
- echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
- echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- electrophones — Plural form of electrophone.
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
- endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
- enhypostatize — to come together in one person or hypostasis
- enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
- entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
- entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
- ethnobotanist — A scholar or researcher in the field of ethnobotany.
- 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
- ethnolinguist — a person who studies ethnolinguistics
- ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
- euthanisation — Alternative spelling of euthanization.
- exanthematous — Of or pertaining to exanthem.
- exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
- exhibitionism — Extravagant behavior that is intended to attract attention to oneself.
- exhibitionist — A person who behaves in an extravagant way in order to attract attention.
- exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
- false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.
- fashion house — an establishment in which fashionable clothes are designed, made, and sold
- fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
- fashion plate — a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
- fashion sense — instinct for what is stylish
- fashion shoot — an event at which photographs are taken of people wearing fashionable clothes
- fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
- fellowshiping — Present participle of fellowship.
- fetishization — The act or process of fetishizing.
- fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
- fisher of men — an evangelist
- 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.
- 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.
- food shopping — shopping to buy food
- 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.