13-letter words containing s, p, a, t
- french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
- galvanoplasty — electrotypy.
- gas separator — A gas separator is a device used to remove liquids from a natural gas stream.
- gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
- gastroparesis — (pathology) A condition, often a complication of diabetes, characterised by a delayed emptying of the stomach.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- gastrorrhaphy — The suture of a perforation of the stomach.
- gastroscopist — One who carries out gastroscopy.
- genital phase — the final stage of psychosexual development, in which a person achieves an affectionate, mature relationship with a sexual partner.
- giant pigfish — a wrass, Achoerodus gouldii, that occurs around the Great Barrier Reef
- giant scallop — sea scallop.
- give it heaps — to try very hard
- give pause to — to cause to hesitate
- gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
- gonadotropins — Plural form of gonadotropin.
- gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
- gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- grantsmanship — skill in securing grants, as for research, from federal agencies, foundations, or the like.
- grape harvest — gathering of ripe grapes from the vine
- greater scaup — any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
- gypsy capstan — a small capstan moved only by a motor or engine.
- 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.
- harry hotspur — the nickname of Sir Henry Percy
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hippo zarytus — ancient name of Bizerte.
- 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.
- housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.