13-letter words containing r, i, s, e
- homeomorphism — similarity in crystalline form but not necessarily in chemical composition.
- homeownership — a person who owns a home.
- homoeroticism — a tendency to be sexually aroused by a member of the same sex.
- honor society — (in a college, university, or secondary school) a student society that admits members on the basis of academic merit and, sometimes, worthwhile contributions in extracurricular activities.
- hoosier state — Indiana (used as a nickname).
- horse gentian — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
- horse stinger — a dragonfly.
- horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
- horse trailer — lorry for transporting a horse
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- horseradishes — Plural form of horseradish.
- horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
- hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
- house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
- house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
- house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.
- house slipper — a slipper worn in the house or indoors, often distinguished from a bedroom slipper by having a back and heel.
- house trailer — a trailer fitted with accommodations for sleeping, eating, washing, etc.
- house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
- house-trained — housebroken.
- house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- housemistress — A female teacher in charge of a dormitory at a boarding school.
- housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
- hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
- hunter trials — a test for hunters held under the auspices of a hunt, in which the course is laid with obstacles to simulate actual hunting conditions.
- hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
- 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).
- 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.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hyperesthesia — an abnormally acute sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch; algesia.
- hyperesthetic — Relating to, or exhibiting, hyperesthesia.
- hyperhidrosis — abnormally excessive sweating.
- hyperlordosis — Particularly severe lordosis.
- hyperparasite — an organism that is parasitic on or in another parasite.
- hyperphysical — being above or beyond the physical; immaterial; supernatural.