13-letter words containing p, h, i, l, e
- french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
- genital phase — the final stage of psychosexual development, in which a person achieves an affectionate, mature relationship with a sexual partner.
- geophysically — In a geophysical manner; in terms of geophysics.
- gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
- give the slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- glacial epoch — Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
- 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.
- graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
- hair clippers — device for trimming hair
- heating plant — a building or facility containing a boiler or furnace that provides heat to a building or a number of buildings
- heliographing — Present participle of heliograph.
- heliotropical — heliotropic
- helispherical — spiral
- help off with — If you help someone off with an item of clothing, you help them take it off.
- hematosalpinx — (medicine) A medical condition involving bleeding into the Fallopian tubes.
- hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
- hemolymphatic — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
- hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
- heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- herpetologist — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
- heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- heteropolitan — a heterosexual man, typically living in a city, whose attitudes and interests are regarded as masculine but not excessively so
- hieroglyphics — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- hieroglyphist — a person who studies hieroglyphics; hieroglyphologist.
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- homoepitaxial — (materials science) Having the same orientation.
- homopolymeric — relating to or made of homopolymers
- hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
- hospital case — a patient that is being, or needs to be, treated in a hospital
- house slipper — a slipper worn in the house or indoors, often distinguished from a bedroom slipper by having a back and heel.
- hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
- hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
- hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyper-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- hyperactively — In a hyperactive manner.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
- hypercalcemia — an abnormally large amount of calcium in the blood.
- hypercritical — excessively or meticulously critical; overcritical.
- hyperdactylia — the presence of extra fingers or toes.
- hyperflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- hypergalactia — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hyperglycemia — an abnormally high level of glucose in the blood.
- hyperglycemic — an abnormally high level of glucose in the blood.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- hyperlipaemia — Alternative form of hyperlipemia.