13-letter words containing o, n, s, h, r, t
- draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
- drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
- 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.
- 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.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- 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.
- 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.
- gonochoristic — Of or pertaining to gonochorism.
- 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
- hampton roads — a channel in SE Virginia between the mouth of the James River and Chesapeake Bay: battle between the Monitor and the Virginia 1862.
- hand controls — a set of controls in some cars, operated by hand, that have the same function as the accelerator, brake, and clutch pedals
- harmonisation — (British spelling) alternative spelling of harmonization.
- hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- 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.).
- herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.
- heterogeneous — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
- heterogenesis — Also, heterogeny [het-uh-roj-uh-nee] /ˌhɛt əˈrɒdʒ ə ni/ (Show IPA). alternation of generations, especially the alternation of parthenogenetic and sexual generations.
- heterostracan — any of several ostracoderms of the order Heterostraci, from the Silurian and Devonian Periods, having the anterior part of the body enclosed in bony plates.
- histogramming — (mathematics) The construction of histograms.
- historicizing — Present participle of historicize.
- histrionicism — histrionic behaviour or acts
- honest broker — a neutral person or organization that mediates disputes; an impartial mediator.
- honor society — (in a college, university, or secondary school) a student society that admits members on the basis of academic merit and, sometimes, worthwhile contributions in extracurricular activities.
- hornet's nest — a large amount of activity, trouble, hostility, or animosity: His investigation stirred up a hornet's nest, resulting in major shifts in personnel.
- horse gentian — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
- horse stinger — a dragonfly.
- horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- hot cross bun — a bun with a cross of frosting on it, eaten chiefly during Lent.