13-letter words containing p, r, e, y, s
- gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
- happy release — liberation, esp by death, from an unpleasant condition
- harpers ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
- heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
- heterostrophy — the condition of being heterostrophic
- 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.
- honeycreepers — Plural form of honeycreeper.
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hymenopterans — Plural form of hymenopteran.
- hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
- hyper-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hyperesthesia — an abnormally acute sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch; algesia.
- hyperesthetic — Relating to, or exhibiting, hyperesthesia.
- hyperhidrosis — abnormally excessive sweating.
- hyperlordosis — Particularly severe lordosis.
- hypermegasoma — gigantism.
- hyperparasite — an organism that is parasitic on or in another parasite.
- hyperpersonal — Very highly personal.
- hyperphysical — being above or beyond the physical; immaterial; supernatural.
- hyperprosexia — a condition in which the whole attention is occupied by one object or idea to the exclusion of others
- hypersalinity — an excess of salt in a saline solution
- hypersarcosis — a fleshy outgrowth
- hypersplenism — an abnormal condition characterized by an enlarged spleen that prematurely destroys red blood cells or platelets.
- hypersthenite — a person who possesses an excess of muscle strength
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- hypertensives — Plural form of hypertensive.
- hypertrophies — Plural form of hypertrophy.
- hypertrophous — relating to hypertrophy
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- hypochlorites — Plural form of hypochlorite.
- hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
- hyposecretion — a diminished secretion.
- hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
- impermissibly — (chiefly, legal) In a way or to an extent that is not permissible.
- impersonality — absence of human character or of the traits associated with the human character: He feared the impersonality of a mechanized world.
- inexpressibly — not expressible; incapable of being uttered or described in words: a scene of inexpressible beauty.
- ipsilaterally — (anatomy, medicine) On the same side of the body.
- irrepressibly — incapable of being repressed or restrained; uncontrollable: irrepressible laughter.
- irresponsibly — said, done, or characterized by a lack of a sense of responsibility: His refusal to work shows him to be completely irresponsible.
- journeyperson — A journeyman or journeywoman.
- kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
- kyrgyz steppe — a vast steppe region in central Kazakhstan