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

  • the best part — If you say that something happened for the best part or the better part of a period of time, you mean that it happened for most of that time.
  • the big apple — New York City
  • the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
  • the heptarchy — the supposed confederacy of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
  • the hyperreal — that which constitutes hyperreality
  • the paleocene — the Paleocene Epoch or its rocks
  • the paleogene — the Paleogene subdivision of the Tertiary Period or its rocks
  • the paleozoic — the Paleozoic Era or its rocks
  • 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 pants off — If someone bores, charms, or scares the pants off you, for example, they bore, charm, or scare you a lot.
  • the pole star — the star closest to the N celestial pole at any particular time. At present this is Polaris, but it will eventually be replaced by some other star owing to precession of the earth's axis
  • the spiritual — the realm of spirits
  • the upper arm — the part of the arm between the shoulder and the elbow
  • the whip hand — If you have the whip hand, you have power over someone else in a particular situation.
  • the-big-apple — New York City.
  • the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
  • therapeutical — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thermal paper — heat-sensitive paper that is impregnated with a chemical; it is used in thermal printers
  • thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermotherapy — treatment of disease by means of moist or dry heat.
  • thespian lion — a lion that attacked the flocks of Amphitryon and was killed by Hercules.
  • thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
  • thiophosphate — a salt or ester of thiophosphoric acid.
  • thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
  • thysanopteran — Also, thysanopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Thysanoptera, comprising the thrips.
  • thysanopteron — thysanopteran.
  • tin parachute — an employment agreement guaranteeing a worker compensation, especially in the form of bonuses and benefits, in the event of dismissal as a result of a merger or takeover.
  • tip one's hat — to take off, raise, or touch one's hat in salutation
  • to go apeshit — to become crazy, enraged, or out of control
  • tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
  • trapezohedron — Crystallography. a crystal form having all faces trapeziums.
  • treasurership — a person in charge of treasure or a treasury.
  • trigger happy — ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences: a trigger-happy hunter.
  • trigger-happy — ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences: a trigger-happy hunter.
  • triple threat — an expert in three different fields or in three different skills in the same field.
  • triple-header — a set of three games, as of basketball, each game being played in the same arena on the same day and often between different pairs of teams.
  • truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
  • unapprehended — to take into custody; arrest by legal warrant or authority: The police apprehended the burglars.
  • underemphasis — inadequate emphasis.
  • unimpeachable — above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives.
  • unimpeachably — above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives.
  • unpublishable — not capable of being made available in print for distribution and sale
  • unreproachful — not deserving reproach or blame
  • unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
  • unsympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • up in the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
  • up the boohai — thoroughly lost
  • upper chamber — upper house.
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