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13-letter words containing a, h, i, e

  • straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
  • straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • subepithelial — any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions.
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superhumanize — to make superhuman, or represent as such
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • synthesis gas — any of several gaseous mixtures consisting essentially of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, used in the synthesis of chemical compounds, as ammonia and alcohols.
  • synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
  • tachistoscope — an apparatus for use in exposing visual stimuli, as pictures, letters, or words, for an extremely brief period, used chiefly to assess visual perception or to increase reading speed.
  • tahrir square — a large square in central Cairo, in Egypt. The name, meaning ‘liberation’, was used informally after the 1919 revolution and then officially after the 1952 revolution. Scene of mass demonstrations in 2011 against the government of president Hosni Mubarak
  • take the bait — If you take the bait, you react to something that someone has said or done exactly as they intended you to do. The expression rise to the bait is also used, mainly in British English.
  • take the piss — mock
  • take the veil — to become a nun
  • talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • team teaching — a system whereby two or more teachers pool their skills, knowledge, etc, to teach combined classes
  • technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • technopolitan — of or relating to a place or society dominated by technology
  • telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
  • telencephalic — the anterior section of the forebrain comprising the cerebrum and related structures.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
  • the antarctic — Antarctica and the surrounding waters
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
  • the argentine — Argentina
  • the artillery — the branch of an army specializing in the use of heavy mounted guns
  • the ascension — the bodily ascent of Jesus into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection: Acts 1:9
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • the beautiful — the quality of beauty
  • the big apple — New York City
  • the caribbean — the states and islands of the Caribbean Sea, including the West Indies, when considered as a geopolitical region
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
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