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13-letter words containing a, d, s, t

  • taylor's gold — a variety of pear from New Zealand
  • telediagnosis — the detection of a disease by evaluating data transmitted to a receiving station from instruments monitoring a distant patient, as someone in a spacecraft.
  • tetradynamous — having four long and two short stamens, as a cruciferous flower.
  • the adversary — Satan
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the east side — the east side of Manhattan Island in New York City
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • the headlines — the main points of a television or radio news broadcast, read out before the full broadcast and summarized at the end
  • the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
  • the last word — final retort
  • the palisades — line of steep cliffs in NE N.J. & SE N.Y. on the west shore of the Hudson: c. 15 mi (24 km) long
  • the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
  • the small ads — the small ads in a newspaper are short advertisements in which you can advertise something such as an object for sale or a room to let
  • thermostatted — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
  • this and that — If you say that you are doing or talking about this and that, or this, that, and the other you mean that you are doing or talking about a variety of things that you do not want to specify.
  • this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
  • thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
  • thomas edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
  • thousand days — the presidential administration of John F. Kennedy, which lasted 1037 days (January 20, 1961, to November 22, 1963).
  • thousand oaks — a town in S California.
  • thundersquall — a combined squall and thunderstorm.
  • timed-release — sustained-release.
  • tinker's damn — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
  • to stand firm — If someone stands firm, they refuse to change their mind about something.
  • toss and turn — If you toss and turn, you keep moving around in bed and cannot sleep properly, for example because you are ill or worried.
  • townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days.
  • trade dispute — a dispute between workers and their employer
  • trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
  • trade mission — commercial business trip
  • trade surplus — If a country has a trade surplus, it exports more than it imports.
  • tradesmanlike — like or characteristic of a tradesman
  • trading stamp — a stamp with a certain value given as a premium by a retailer to a customer, specified quantities of these stamps being exchangeable for various articles.
  • trained nurse — graduate nurse.
  • transactinide — any element having an atomic number higher than 103, the last of the actinide series. These superheavy, radioactive elements are extremely short-lived, and can only be created in the laboratory.
  • transboundary — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • transcendence — the quality or state of being transcendent.
  • transcendency — the quality or state of being transcendent.
  • transcendents — going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
  • transfer desk — the place in an airport where you arrange a transfer from one flight to another
  • transgendered — transgender (defs 1, 2).
  • transportedly — in a passionate or rapturous manner
  • treasury bond — any of various interest-bearing bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, usually maturing over a long period of time.
  • trisaccharide — a carbohydrate composed of three monosaccharide units, and hydrolyzable to a monosaccharide or a mixture of monosaccharides.
  • tungstic acid — a hydrate of tungsten trioxide, H 2 WO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used in the manufacture of tungsten-lamp filaments.
  • unadventurous — inclined or willing to engage in adventures; enjoying adventures.
  • unascertained — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
  • unassimilated — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
  • uncompensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • unconsecrated — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
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