13-letter words containing s, e, r, o, n
- 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.
- housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- humorlessness — The state, quality, or condition of lacking humor.
- hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
- hunter's moon — the first full moon following the harvest moon in late September or early October.
- hunter's robe — pothos.
- 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.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- hymenopterans — Plural form of hymenopteran.
- hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
- hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperpersonal — Very highly personal.
- hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
- hyposecretion — a diminished secretion.
- hysteranthous — relating to a plant whose flowers open before its leaves
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
- immunosorbent — an insoluble surface to which a specific antibody is attached for the purpose of removing the corresponding antigen from a solution or suspension.
- imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
- imperiousness — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
- impersonalise — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- impersonalism — the practice of maintaining impersonal relations with individuals or groups.
- impersonality — absence of human character or of the traits associated with the human character: He feared the impersonality of a mechanized world.
- impersonalize — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impersonation — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impersonators — Plural form of impersonator.
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- importunities — Plural form of importunity.
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- impressionism — Fine Arts. (usually initial capital letter) a style of painting developed in the last third of the 19th century, characterized chiefly by short brush strokes of bright colors in immediate juxtaposition to represent the effect of light on objects. a manner of painting in which the forms, colors, or tones of an object are lightly and rapidly indicated. a manner of sculpture in which volumes are partially modeled and surfaces roughened to reflect light unevenly.
- impressionist — a person who follows or adheres to the theories, methods, and practices of impressionism, especially in the fields of painting, music, or literature.
- imprisonments — Plural form of imprisonment.
- in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- in respect of — with regard, with reference
- in respect to — with regard to
- in retrospect — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
- in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- inclinometers — Plural form of inclinometer.
- incoherencies — incoherence.
- income source — something that provides a regular supply of money, such as employment, investments, a pension etc
- income stream — a flow of money into a business
- incongruences — not congruent.
- incongruities — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
- inconsiderate — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.