13-letter words containing s, h, a, p
- graphics card — graphics adaptor
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
- hagiographers — Plural form of hagiographer.
- hagiographies — Plural form of hagiography.
- hair clippers — device for trimming hair
- hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
- 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.
- haphazardness — characterized by lack of order or planning, by irregularity, or by randomness; determined by or dependent on chance; aimless.
- happy release — liberation, esp by death, from an unpleasant condition
- hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
- hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
- harpers ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
- harry hotspur — the nickname of Sir Henry Percy
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- hassenpfeffer — a stew of marinated rabbit meat garnished usually with sour cream.
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
- helispherical — spiral
- hematophagous — feeding on blood, as the vampire bat.
- hematopoiesis — the formation of blood.
- hematosalpinx — (medicine) A medical condition involving bleeding into the Fallopian tubes.
- hemiparasitic — Semiparasitic.
- hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
- hepatectomies — Plural form of hepatectomy.
- heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- heptasyllable — a word or line of verse of seven syllables.
- heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
- hermaphrodism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- 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.
- heterocarpous — (of a plant) producing more than one type of fruit
- heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- hieracosphinx — (in ancient Egyptian art) a hawk-headed sphinx
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hip dysplasia — a genetic disorder, typically affecting young dogs of medium- to large-sized breeds, characterized by alteration and malformation of the hip joint.
- hippo zarytus — ancient name of Bizerte.
- hire purchase — buying sth by instalments
- hire-purchase — a system of payment for a commodity in regular installments while using it.
- hopkinsianism — a modified Calvinism taught by Samuel Hopkins (1721–1803), that emphasized the sovereignty of God, the importance of His decrees, and the necessity of submitting to His will, accepting even damnation, if required, for His glory, and holding that ethics is merely disinterested benevolence.
- hospitability — The quality of being hospitable.
- hospital bill — the bills incurred for receiving hospital treatment
- hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
- hospital case — a patient that is being, or needs to be, treated in a hospital
- hospital pass — a pass made to a team-mate who will be tackled heavily as soon as the ball is received
- hospital ship — a ship built to serve as a hospital, especially used to treat the wounded in wartime and accorded safe passage by international law.
- hospitalizing — Present participle of hospitalize.
- hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
- house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.