13-letter words containing p, h, o, r
- 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.
- gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- gastrorrhaphy — The suture of a perforation of the stomach.
- genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
- geomorphology — the study of the characteristics, origin, and development of landforms.
- gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
- glossographer — a glossator.
- gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
- gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
- good shepherd — Jesus Christ. John 10:11–14.
- 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
- 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.
- graphological — Relating to graphology.
- 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
- group therapy — psychotherapy in which a number of patients discuss their problems together, usually under the leadership of a therapist, using shared knowledge and experiences to provide constructive feedback about maladaptive behavior.
- gynandromorph — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
- hagiographers — Plural form of hagiographer.
- hagiographies — Plural form of hagiography.
- 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.
- happy warrior — a person who is undiscouraged by difficulties or opposition.
- hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
- harry hotspur — the nickname of Sir Henry Percy
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- 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
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- heating power — power that can be used to heat something
- hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
- heliographing — Present participle of heliograph.
- heliotropical — heliotropic
- hemiterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C5 skeleton.
- hemp agrimony — a European composite plant, Eupatorium cannabinum, having dull purplish flowers.
- hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
- hepatojugular — (medicine) Relating to the liver and the jugular vein.
- 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.
- hermaphrodyte — (archaic) alternative spelling of hermaphrodite.
- herniorrhaphy — correction of a hernia by a suturing procedure.
- herod agrippa — (Julius Agrippa) c10 b.c.–a.d. 44, king of Judea 41–44 (grandson of Herod the Great).
- 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.
- herpes zoster — shingles.