13-letter words containing r, i, d, e, s, h
- 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.
- hybrid system — a way of working, organizing, or doing something that is composed of elements of two separate systems
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- hydromedusoid — a jellyfish or something resembling a jellyfish that lives in water
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
- hyperhidrosis — abnormally excessive sweating.
- hyperlordosis — Particularly severe lordosis.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
- indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
- isodrosotherm — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having an equal dew point.
- 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.
- merchandisers — Plural form of merchandiser.
- merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- meths drinker — a person who drinks methylated spirits
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
- miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
- moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
- monochlorides — Plural form of monochloride.
- nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
- neighborhoods — Plural form of neighborhood.
- niedersachsen — German name of Lower Saxony.
- odontornithes — a proposed class of birds that possess teeth
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
- outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
- overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- 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.
- phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- 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).
- presidentship — presidency.
- pretendership — the standing of a pretender
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- radiesthesist — a practitioner of radiesthesia
- 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
- rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
- reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- resident head — someone who is charge of running and supervising a student residence
- residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up