13-letter words containing r, a, s, p
- growing pains — If a person or organization suffers from growing pains, they experience temporary difficulties and problems at the beginning of a particular stage of development.
- gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
- 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.
- hair clippers — device for trimming hair
- hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
- 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.
- haphazardness — characterized by lack of order or planning, by irregularity, or by randomness; determined by or dependent on chance; aimless.
- happy release — liberation, esp by death, from an unpleasant condition
- hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
- hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
- harpers ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
- harry hotspur — the nickname of Sir Henry Percy
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- hassenpfeffer — a stew of marinated rabbit meat garnished usually with sour cream.
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
- helispherical — spiral
- hemiparasitic — Semiparasitic.
- hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
- heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
- hermaphrodism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- 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.
- heterocarpous — (of a plant) producing more than one type of fruit
- heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- hieracosphinx — (in ancient Egyptian art) a hawk-headed sphinx
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hippo zarytus — ancient name of Bizerte.
- hire purchase — buying sth by instalments
- hire-purchase — a system of payment for a commodity in regular installments while using it.
- hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
- house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.
- house sparrow — a small, hardy, buffy-brown and gray bird, Passer domesticus, of Europe, introduced into America, Australia, etc.
- housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
- 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.
- hymenopterans — Plural form of hymenopteran.
- 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.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hyperesthesia — an abnormally acute sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch; algesia.
- 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