13-letter words containing r, o, a, d, h
- dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
- earth-goddess — a goddess of fertility and vegetation.
- east hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
- enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
- flash-forward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
- foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
- 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.
- forward slash — a short oblique stroke (/), or slash, especially one used in computer programming or to specify an Internet address or computer filename.
- fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
- freedom march — an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.
- 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.
- full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
- garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
- gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
- gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
- gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
- good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
- goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
- gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
- grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
- groundhog day — February 2, in most parts of the U.S., the day on which, according to legend, the groundhog first emerges from hibernation. If it is a sunny day and the groundhog sees its shadow, six more weeks of wintry weather are predicted.
- gynandromorph — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
- haemodialyzer — a piece of equipment used in haemodialysis to screen the blood to remove unwanted substances
- hammond organ — an electric organ with two keyboards, electronic tone generation, and a wide variety of tone colours: invented in 1934
- hampton roads — a channel in SE Virginia between the mouth of the James River and Chesapeake Bay: battle between the Monitor and the Virginia 1862.
- hand controls — a set of controls in some cars, operated by hand, that have the same function as the accelerator, brake, and clutch pedals
- hard shoulder — The hard shoulder is the area at the side of a motorway or other road where you are allowed to stop if your car breaks down.
- hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
- harold burton — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
- hartford fern — a climbing or sprawling fern, Lygodium palmatum, of the eastern U.S., having deeply lobed ivylike leaves.
- hathor-headed — (of an ancient Egyptian column) having a capital in the form of the head of Hathor; Hathoric.
- have a record — to be a known criminal; have a previous conviction or convictions
- hazardousness — The condition of being hazardous.
- head of water — a quantity of water
- heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- hendecahedron — a solid figure having 11 faces.
- hermaphrodism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- hermaphrodite — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
- hermaphrodyte — (archaic) alternative spelling of 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.