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13-letter words that end in h

  • perennibranch — any amphibian that retains its gills throughout its life
  • perfect pitch — absolute pitch (def 2).
  • phonautograph — a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
  • piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
  • platyhelminth — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes; a flatworm.
  • play hob with — to make trouble for; interfere with and make disordered
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
  • polling booth — a booth in which voters cast their votes.
  • pompano beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
  • pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
  • primary tooth — one of the temporary teeth of a mammal that are replaced by the permanent teeth.
  • primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
  • print-through — the unwanted transfer of a recorded magnetic field pattern from one turn of magnetic tape to the preceding or succeeding turn on a reel, causing distortion
  • protest march — public demonstration
  • pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
  • public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
  • quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
  • queen's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
  • quiller-couch — Sir Arthur Thomas ("Q") 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.
  • quintillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 18 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 30 zeros.
  • rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • redondo beach — a city in SW California.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • regular graph — (mathematics)   A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
  • riviera beach — a town in SE Florida.
  • robber trench — a trench that originally contained the foundations of a wall, the stones of which have been taken away
  • rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
  • rolling hitch — a hitch on a spar or the like, composed of two round turns and a half hitch so disposed as to jam when a stress is applied parallel to the object on which the hitch is made.
  • rosebud mouth — a mouth that resembles the unopened flower of a rose in shape
  • rosh hashanah — a Jewish high holy day that marks the beginning of the Jewish New Year, celebrated on the first and second days of Tishri by Orthodox and Conservative Jews and only on the first day by Reform Jews.
  • rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
  • run away with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
  • runner's high — a state of euphoria experienced during prolonged running or other forms of aerobic, sustained exercise, attributed to an increase of endorphins in the blood.
  • sacher-masoch — Leopold von [ley-oh-pohlt fuh n] /ˈleɪ oʊˌpoʊlt fən/ (Show IPA), 1836–95, Austrian novelist.
  • saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
  • scabbard fish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • schoolgirlish — like or characteristic of a schoolgirl
  • schoolmarmish — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
  • schwärmerisch — excessively or extremely enthusiastic
  • scoinson arch — sconcheon arch.
  • scorpion fish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
  • scotch-hearth — ore hearth.
  • scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
  • second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
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