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13-letter words containing r, e, d, s, h, a

  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • hereditaments — Plural form of hereditament.
  • hereditarians — Plural form of hereditarian.
  • hermaphrodism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • 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.
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
  • horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
  • horseradishes — Plural form of horseradish.
  • house-trained — housebroken.
  • household art — any of the skills necessary to the efficient running of a household, as cooking or keeping a family budget.
  • hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
  • hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
  • 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.
  • hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • leather goods — products made of animal skin
  • leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
  • letter head's — a printed heading on stationery, especially one giving the name and address of a business concern, an institution, etc.
  • merchandisers — Plural form of merchandiser.
  • merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • metamorphosed — to change the form or nature of; transform.
  • misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
  • moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
  • mohave desert — a desert in S California: part of the Great Basin. About 15,000 sq. mi. (38,850 sq. km).
  • more hands on — characterized by or involved in active personal participation in an activity; individual and direct: a workshop to give children hands-on experience with computers.
  • nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
  • niedersachsen — German name of Lower Saxony.
  • northeastward — the northeast.
  • northwestward — the northwest.
  • overhead-shot — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
  • paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
  • paper-shelled — having a thin, easily broken shell: paper-shelled nuts.
  • paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
  • parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
  • pass the word — If you pass the word, you tell someone something that another person has told you.
  • pedal pushers — women's short trousers
  • phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • pressure head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
  • radiesthesist — a practitioner of radiesthesia
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
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