13-letter words containing p, y, e
- gyro repeater — a navigational compass, under the control of a gyroscope, that automatically indicates true north.
- 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.
- heat capacity — the heat required to raise the temperature of a substance one degree.
- heavy petting — Informal. intense petting that involves mutual stimulation of the genitals but not sexual intercourse.
- 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.
- hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- heptasyllable — a word or line of verse of seven syllables.
- heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
- hermaphrodyte — (archaic) alternative spelling of hermaphrodite.
- herniorrhaphy — correction of a hernia by a suturing procedure.
- 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.
- hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
- homopolymeric — relating to or made of homopolymers
- honey creeper — any of several small, usually brightly colored birds, related to the tanagers and wood warblers, of tropical and semitropical America.
- honeycreepers — Plural form of honeycreeper.
- hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
- hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
- 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.
- hydromorphone — A synthetic narcotic analgesic, (4,5 alpha-epoxy-3-hydroxy-17-methyl morphinan-6-one), similar to morphine and heroin. It is used for moderate to severe pain under the trade name Dilaudid.
- hydroperoxide — any chemical compound having the general formula, ROOH, where R is an element or an organic group.
- 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.
- hymenorrhaphy — (medicine) Reconstructive surgery in which a woman's hymen is restored to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hyper-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- hyperactivate — (biology) To cause or undergo hyperactivation.
- hyperactively — In a hyperactive manner.
- hyperactivity — the condition of being hyperactive.
- hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
- hypercalcemia — an abnormally large amount of calcium in the blood.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hypercinnabar — (mineral) A form of cinnabar that forms hexagonal crystals.
- hypercritical — excessively or meticulously critical; overcritical.
- hypercyanotic — blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.
- hyperdactylia — the presence of extra fingers or toes.
- hyperdicrotic — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
- hyperesthesia — an abnormally acute sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch; algesia.
- hyperesthetic — Relating to, or exhibiting, hyperesthesia.
- hypereutectic — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
- hyperextended — Extremely long; extended greatly.