13-letter words containing o, n, h
- doughnut hole — a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans
- down the line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
- down the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- down the tube — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- down to earth — practical and realistic: a down-to-earth person.
- down-the-line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
- down-to-earth — practical and realistic: a down-to-earth person.
- downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- 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.
- drink to that — People say 'I'll drink to that' to show that they agree with and approve of something that someone has just said.
- 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.
- dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
- dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
- dutch auction — a method of auction consisting in the offer of a property at a price above the actual value and then at gradually reduced prices until a buyer is found.
- 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.
- 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.
- electrophonic — Relating to electronic equipment to produce sound (this adjectival sense is not comparable).
- eleventh hour — If someone does something at the eleventh hour, they do it at the last possible moment.
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- enantiomorphy — the state of being enantiomorphic
- encephalocele — (medicine) A form of hernia of the brain and its membranes through an opening in the skull.
- encephalogram — An image, trace, or other record of the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
- encephalotomy — The dissection of the brain.
- enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
- encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- endophenotype — (medicine) any hereditary characteristic that is normally associated with some condition but is not a direct symptom of that condition.
- endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
- enhypostatize — to come together in one person or hypostasis
- enterohepatic — Relating to or denoting the circulation of bile salts and other secretions from the liver to the intestine, where they are reabsorbed into the blood and returned to the liver.
- enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
- entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
- entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
- epiphenomenal — Being of secondary consequence to a causal chain of processes, but playing no causal role in the process of interest.Huettel, Function Magnetic Imaging, 2004.
- epiphenomenon — A secondary effect or byproduct that arises from but does not causally influence a process, in particular.