13-letter words containing s, p, h, r
- hypersalinity — an excess of salt in a saline solution
- hypersarcosis — a fleshy outgrowth
- hypersplenism — an abnormal condition characterized by an enlarged spleen that prematurely destroys red blood cells or platelets.
- hypersthenite — a person who possesses an excess of muscle strength
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- hypertensives — Plural form of hypertensive.
- hypertrophies — Plural form of hypertrophy.
- hypertrophous — relating to hypertrophy
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- hypochlorites — Plural form of hypochlorite.
- hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
- hyposecretion — a diminished secretion.
- hyposulfurous — of or derived from hyposulfurous acid.
- hyposulphuric — relating to sulphur which is in a lower state of oxidation than it is in sulphuric compounds
- hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
- hypsophyllary — relating to a hypsophyll
- hystricomorph — any rodent of the suborder Hystricomorpha, which includes porcupines, cavies, agoutis, and chinchillas
- ibrahim pasha — 1789–1848, Egyptian general: governor of Syria 1833–40 (son of Mehemet Ali).
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
- 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.
- irish pennant — an unwhipped rope end.
- isodimorphism — isomorphism between the forms of two dimorphous substances.
- joseph crater — Joseph Force [fawrs,, fohrs] /fɔrs,, foʊrs/ (Show IPA), 1889–? a judge of the New York State Supreme Court: his mysterious disappearance on August 6, 1930, has never been solved.
- joseph hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- joseph lister — Joseph, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis [lahym ree-jis] /laɪm ˈri dʒɪs/ (Show IPA), 1827–1912, English surgeon: founder of modern antiseptic surgery.
- joseph ritter — Joseph Elmer, 1891–1967, U.S. cardinal.
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
- kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
- librarianship — a profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
- lipodystrophy — A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
- lithotripters — Plural form of lithotripter.
- lithotriptist — a person skilled in breaking and removing stones from the bladder
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- lymphosarcoma — a malignant tumor in lymphatic tissue, caused by the growth of abnormal lymphocytes.
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- magnetographs — Plural form of magnetograph.
- magnetosphere — the outer region of the earth's ionosphere, where the earth's magnetic field controls the motion of charged particles, as in the Van Allen belts. Compare magnetopause.
- mantis shrimp — any stomatopod crustacean having a pair of appendages modified for grasping prey and resembling those of a mantis.
- marshall plan — European Recovery Program.
- mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.