13-letter words containing s, a, t, n, i
- gynaecologist — (UK, Canada, dated in US) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.
- gynaecomastia — abnormal overdevelopment of the breasts in a man
- gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
- hainan strait — a strait between Hainan island and Leizhou peninsula. 50 miles (81 km) long; 15 miles (24 km) wide.
- hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
- hand-stitched — stitched by hand rather than by a machine
- hanging stile — the stile of a door, shutter, etc., by which it is hung.
- hard standing — a hard-surfaced area on which heavy vehicles or airplanes can be parked.
- harmonisation — (British spelling) alternative spelling of harmonization.
- harness hitch — a hitch forming a loop around a rope, especially one formed at the end of a bowline.
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- haute cuisine — fine or gourmet cooking; food preparation as an art.
- heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
- helianthemums — Plural form of helianthemum.
- helminthiasis — a disease caused by parasitic worms in the intestines.
- hematogenesis — hematopoiesis.
- hematosalpinx — (medicine) A medical condition involving bleeding into the Fallopian tubes.
- heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
- hereditaments — Plural form of hereditament.
- hereditarians — Plural form of hereditarian.
- herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- hessian boots — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- hiatus hernia — an abnormal condition in which part of the stomach protrudes upward through the esophageal cleft in the diaphragm, sometimes causing a backflow of acid stomach contents into the esophagus.
- histaminergic — releasing histamine
- histogramming — (mathematics) The construction of histograms.
- 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 trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- hospitalizing — Present participle of hospitalize.
- house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.
- house-trained — housebroken.
- housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
- hudson strait — a strait connecting Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. 450 miles (725 km) long; 100 miles (160 km) wide.
- humanitarians — Plural form of humanitarian.
- 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.
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- hypersalinity — an excess of salt in a saline solution
- hypostatizing — Present participle of hypostatize.
- ichthyopsidan — a member of the class Ichthyopsida
- idealizations — Plural form of idealization.
- identicalness — The state or quality of being identical.
- idiomaticness — Idiomaticity.