13-letter words containing s, h, i, t, o, n
- 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.
- heterogenesis — Also, heterogeny [het-uh-roj-uh-nee] /ˌhɛt əˈrɒdʒ ə ni/ (Show IPA). alternation of generations, especially the alternation of parthenogenetic and sexual generations.
- histogramming — (mathematics) The construction of histograms.
- historicizing — Present participle of historicize.
- histrionicism — histrionic behaviour or acts
- hitching post — a post to which horses, mules, etc., are tied.
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- homogeneities — Plural form of homogeneity.
- 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.
- 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-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- hospitalizing — Present participle of hospitalize.
- house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.
- house-hunting — the act of searching for a house to buy or rent
- house-trained — housebroken.
- 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.
- housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
- housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
- hudson strait — a strait connecting Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. 450 miles (725 km) long; 100 miles (160 km) wide.
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- hyposecretion — a diminished secretion.
- hyposensitive — low or diminished sensitivity to stimulation.
- hyposensitize — to cause (a person) to become less sensitive to (a substance producing an allergic reaction); desensitize.
- hypostatizing — Present participle of hypostatize.
- hypothesising — Present participle of hypothesise.
- hypothesizing — to form a hypothesis.
- ichthyopsidan — a member of the class Ichthyopsida
- immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
- in silhouette — If you see something in silhouette, you see it as a dark shape with no detail except for the outline.
- in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
- inhabitations — Plural form of inhabitation.
- inhospitality — lack of hospitality; inhospitable attitude toward or treatment of visitors, guests, etc.
- inspectorship — The condition of being an inspector; the office of an inspector.
- iontophoresis — a painless alternative to drug injection in which a weak electrical current is used to stimulate drug-carrying ions to pass through intact skin.
- joint honours — an honours university degree in which a student studies two separate subjects, as opposed to a single subject
- joseph stalin — Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
- kathenotheism — Belief that multiple deities exist, and different deities are supreme among them at different times.
- kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
- know by sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- know-nothings — an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.