13-letter words containing r, h, o, d, i, a
- hypochondriac — Also, hypochondriacal, H05/H0509000 hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-kuh l, ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə kəl. Psychiatry. pertaining to or suffering from hypochondria, an excessive preoccupation with and worry about one's health: The comedy is aimed at the hypochondriac demographic. produced by hypochondria: Hypochondriac feelings overwhelmed her.
- hypohydration — Dehydration.
- ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- idiochromatic — (of a mineral) deriving a characteristic color from its capacity to absorb certain light rays.
- in order that — used to introduce a clause of purpose
- interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- korf, richard — Richard Korf
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- lizard orchid — a European orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum, rare in Britain, having a spike of grey-green flowers smelling of goats
- losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- maid of honor — an unmarried woman who is the chief attendant of a bride. Compare matron of honor.
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- mitochondrial — (cytology) Of, or relating to mitochondria.
- moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
- nonauthorized — Not authorized.
- nonhereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- north reading — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- oil hardening — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- orchidomaniac — a person who is obsessed with or has a passion for orchids
- orthodiagonal — the axis in a crystal
- orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
- orthopinakoid — a crystalline plane
- paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- 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).
- prosthodontia — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- radio horizon — the locus of points on the earth's surface where rays from a transmitting antenna are tangent to the surface. The radio horizon for a fixed antenna varies with refraction by the atmosphere of radio waves.
- radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
- rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
- roman holiday — a public spectacle or controversy marked by barbarism, vindictiveness, or scandal.
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
- sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
- staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
- strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
- synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
- tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
- the high road — the principal road from one place to another
- the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.