13-letter words containing p, h, i
- 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.
- grantsmanship — skill in securing grants, as for research, from federal agencies, foundations, or the like.
- graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
- graphic algol — (language) A extension of ALGOL 60 for real-time generation of shaded perspective pictures.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- graphics card — graphics adaptor
- graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
- graphological — Relating to graphology.
- guttersnipish — Resembling or characteristic of a guttersnipe.
- gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
- hagiographers — Plural form of hagiographer.
- hagiographies — Plural form of hagiography.
- hair clippers — device for trimming hair
- hairpin curve — A hairpin curve or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
- half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
- hanging plant — a plant that grows downwards or hangs, often from a hanging basket or a high surface
- happy warrior — a person who is undiscouraged by difficulties or opposition.
- hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- hate campaign — A hate campaign is a series of actions which are intended to harm or upset someone, or to make other people have a low opinion of them.
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- heat capacity — the heat required to raise the temperature of a substance one degree.
- heating plant — a building or facility containing a boiler or furnace that provides heat to a building or a number of buildings
- heating power — power that can be used to heat something
- heavy petting — Informal. intense petting that involves mutual stimulation of the genitals but not sexual intercourse.
- heir apparent — an heir whose right is indefeasible, provided he or she survives the ancestor.
- 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.
- hematopoiesis — the formation of blood.
- hematopoietic — the formation of blood.
- hematosalpinx — (medicine) A medical condition involving bleeding into the Fallopian tubes.
- hemiparasitic — Semiparasitic.
- hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
- hemiterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C5 skeleton.
- hemolymphatic — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
- hemp agrimony — a European composite plant, Eupatorium cannabinum, having dull purplish flowers.
- hepatectomies — Plural form of hepatectomy.
- hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
- heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
- heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
- heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
- hermaphrodism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- hermaphrodite — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
- herniorrhaphy — correction of a hernia by a suturing procedure.