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13-letter words containing n, o, t, h, e

  • exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
  • fashion plate — a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
  • fetishization — The act or process of fetishizing.
  • flannel-mouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • for one thing — the first reason is
  • 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.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • franche-comte — a former province in E France: once a part of Burgundy.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • frighten into — If you frighten someone into doing something they would not normally do, you make them do it by making them afraid not to do it.
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • genethlialogy — the science of calculating positions of the heavenly bodies on nativities.
  • genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
  • gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
  • geotechnology — the application of science and technology in order to utilize the earth's natural resources
  • gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
  • gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
  • ghettoization — The process of becoming a ghetto, an isolated and underprivileged urban area.
  • 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.
  • giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
  • 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.
  • golan heights — a range of hills in the Middle East, possession of which is disputed between Israel and Syria: under Syrian control until 1967 when they were stormed by Israeli forces; Jewish settlements have since been established. Highest peak: 2224 m (7297 ft)
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • gopher client — (networking)   A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
  • haematogenous — producing blood
  • haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
  • halotolerance — The quality or degree of being halotolerant.
  • hang together — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • harmonic tone — a tone produced by suppressing the fundamental tone and bringing into prominence one of its overtones.
  • hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
  • hartford fern — a climbing or sprawling fern, Lygodium palmatum, of the eastern U.S., having deeply lobed ivylike leaves.
  • hatemongering — The behaviour of a hatemonger; the spreading of hatred.
  • haute-garonne — a department in S France. 2458 sq. mi. (6365 sq. km). Capital: Toulouse.
  • heart monitor — a machine that registers the activity of the heart
  • heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
  • heartbrokenly — In a heartbroken manner.
  • heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
  • heat equation — a partial differential equation the solution of which gives the distribution of temperature in a region as a function of space and time when the temperature at the boundaries, the initial distribution of temperature, and the physical properties of the medium are specified.
  • heating power — power that can be used to heat something
  • 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.
  • 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.).
  • hell on earth — torment, horrendous experience
  • hellenization — to make Greek in character.
  • helminthology — the scientific study of worms, especially of parasitic worms.
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