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13-letter words containing a, t, h, e, o

  • station house — a police station or fire station.
  • steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
  • stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
  • stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
  • stone-hearted — stony-hearted.
  • stony-hearted — hardhearted.
  • stout-hearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
  • stovepipe hat — a tall silk hat.
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • 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.
  • sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
  • sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
  • table--d-hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
  • 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.
  • take the road — to begin a journey or tour
  • take to heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • take-home pay — the amount of salary remaining after deductions, as of taxes, have been made.
  • tapestry moth — carpet moth.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • tea-of-heaven — a shrub, Hydrangea macrophylla serrata, of the saxifrage family, native to Japan and Korea, having hairy, ovate leaves and flat or slightly arched clusters of blue or white flowers.
  • techno-babble — technical jargon relating to computing and other technological subjects
  • technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • technopolitan — of or relating to a place or society dominated by technology
  • telencephalon — the anterior section of the forebrain comprising the cerebrum and related structures.
  • telephone tag — repeated unsuccessful attempts by two persons to connect with one another by telephone.
  • tell you what — You say 'Tell you what' to introduce a suggestion or offer.
  • temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • tetartohedral — (of a crystal) having one fourth the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • that's enough — You say 'that's enough' to tell someone, especially a child, to stop behaving in a silly, noisy, or unpleasant way.
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the ascension — the bodily ascent of Jesus into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection: Acts 1:9
  • the atonement — the redeeming of humanity and its reconciliation with God through the suffering and death of Jesus Christ
  • the boat race — a rowing event held annually in the spring, in which an eight representing Oxford University rows against one representing Cambridge University on the Thames between Putney and Mortlake
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
  • the far north — the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of the world
  • the father of — a very large, severe, etc, example of a specified kind
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • the heavy mob — a group of heavies or enforcers
  • the high road — the principal road from one place to another
  • the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
  • the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
  • the last word — final retort
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
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