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13-letter words containing p, h, l

  • euler-chelpin — Hans (Karl August) von. 1873–1964, Swedish biochemist, born in Germany: shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1929) with Sir Arthur Harden for their work on enzymes: father of Ulf von Euler
  • euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
  • extremophiles — Plural form of extremophile.
  • fashion plate — a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
  • feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
  • fellowshiping — Present participle of fellowship.
  • fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • fighter pilot — sb who pilots a bomber plane
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flesh peddler — a prostitute.
  • flesh-peddler — an employment agent or agency, especially one that recruits executives.
  • fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
  • fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
  • free enthalpy — a thermodynamic property of a system equal to the difference between its enthalpy and the product of its temperature and its entropy. It is usually measured in joules
  • freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
  • french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
  • gallop rhythm — an abnormal heart rhythm characterized by three clear sounds in each beat, resembling the sound of a horse's gallop.
  • genital phase — the final stage of psychosexual development, in which a person achieves an affectionate, mature relationship with a sexual partner.
  • geomorphology — the study of the characteristics, origin, and development of landforms.
  • 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.
  • gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
  • glossographer — a glossator.
  • 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.
  • graph plotter — plotter
  • 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.
  • graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
  • graphological — Relating to graphology.
  • hair clippers — device for trimming hair
  • 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 release — liberation, esp by death, from an unpleasant condition
  • heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
  • heart problem — a defect or disease of the heart
  • 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.
  • helper t cell — a T cell that stimulates B cells to produce antibody against a foreign substance, using lymphokines or direct contact as a signal.
  • helper t-cell — a type of T cell that helps coordinate the immune response, especially by activating B cells: the AIDS virus targets and destroys these T cells
  • hematosalpinx — (medicine) A medical condition involving bleeding into the Fallopian tubes.
  • hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
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