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13-letter words containing d, e, n, t, i

  • task-oriented — focusing on the completion of particular tasks as a measure of success
  • tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
  • tax deduction — an expenditure that is deducted from taxable income.
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • teeing ground — tee2 (def 1a).
  • 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.
  • teledildonics — a technology supposedly enabling two or more people to engage in sexual activity remotely
  • telerecording — the recording of television signals on tape or, more usually, on film
  • tender-minded — compassionate and idealistic.
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
  • the decencies — those things that are considered necessary for a decent life
  • the ediacaran — the Ediacaran period or rock system
  • 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 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 unco guid — narrow-minded, excessively religious, or self-righteous people
  • the whip hand — If you have the whip hand, you have power over someone else in a particular situation.
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thiabendazole — a drug used as an antifungal treatment and as an anthelmintic
  • thick-skinned — having a thick skin.
  • third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
  • third reading — the final step in the consideration of a legislative bill before it is put to a vote.
  • thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
  • thomas edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
  • thunderstrike — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
  • time dilation — Physics. (in relativity) the apparent loss of time of a moving clock as observed by a stationary observer.
  • time discount — a discount allowed for payment of an invoice or bill before it falls due.
  • time-honoured — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
  • timing device — a device that can be set to detonate a bomb at a particular time
  • tinker's damn — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
  • tinker's weed — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
  • tintagel head — a cape in SW England, on the W coast of Cornwall.
  • titanic oxide — a white, water-insoluble powder, TiO 2 , used chiefly in white pigments, plastics, ceramics, and for delustering synthetic fibers.
  • to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
  • to end it all — If someone ends it all, they kill themselves.
  • to one's mind — in one's opinion
  • trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
  • trade edition — an edition of a book for distribution through general bookstores.
  • trade mission — commercial business trip
  • traded option — an option that can itself be bought and sold on a stock exchange
  • tradesmanlike — like or characteristic of a tradesman
  • trailing edge — the rear edge of a propeller blade or airfoil.
  • 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.
  • treaty indian — a status Indian who is a member of a group that has signed a treaty with the federal government.
  • trend-setting — establishing or influencing a new trend or fashion.
  • trimethadione — a synthetic, white, crystalline powder, C 6 H 9 NO 3 , used as an anticonvulsant to control petit mal epileptic seizures.
  • trinucleotide — three linked nucleotides; triplet.
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