13-letter words containing r, h, i, n, o, e
- dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
- dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
- earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
- electrophonic — Relating to electronic equipment to produce sound (this adjectival sense is not comparable).
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- enantiomorphy — the state of being enantiomorphic
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- enterohepatic — Relating to or denoting the circulation of bile salts and other secretions from the liver to the intestine, where they are reabsorbed into the blood and returned to the liver.
- enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
- epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
- erin go bragh — Ireland forever
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
- ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
- ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
- event horizon — the surface around a black hole enclosing the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escape due to gravitational attraction. For a non-rotating black hole, the radius is proportional to the mass of the black hole
- exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
- exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
- false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.
- fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
- fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
- fisher of men — an evangelist
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- for one thing — the first reason is
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
- four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
- french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
- french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
- friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
- frighten into — If you frighten someone into doing something they would not normally do, you make them do it by making them afraid not to do it.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
- gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
- gilmore, john — John Gilmore
- golden shiner — a small, silvery freshwater minnow, Notemigonus crysoleucas, native to eastern North America and introduced into western North America: often used as live bait in sport fishing.
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- good-neighbor — characterized by friendly political relations and mutual aid between countries.
- 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.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- haemorrhaging — Present participle of haemorrhage.
- harmonic mean — the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers.
- harmonic tone — a tone produced by suppressing the fundamental tone and bringing into prominence one of its overtones.