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13-letter words containing e, a, r, t, h, s

  • cross the bar — to die
  • crow-pheasant — a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.
  • cryotherapies — Plural form of cryotherapy.
  • cryptesthesia — allegedly paranormal perception, as clairvoyance or clairaudience.
  • culture clash — a conflict arising from the interaction of people with different cultural values
  • cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
  • dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
  • death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
  • death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
  • demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
  • dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
  • deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
  • diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
  • disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
  • disinthralled — freed from thraldom
  • draw the shot — to deliver the bowl in such a way that it approaches the jack
  • dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
  • earth science — any of various sciences, as geography, geology, or meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects.
  • earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
  • earth-goddess — a goddess of fertility and vegetation.
  • east ayrshire — a council area of SW Scotland, comprising the E part of the historical county of Ayrshire: part of Strathclyde region from 1975 to 1996: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Kilmarnock. Pop: 119 530 (2003 est). Area: 1252 sq km (483 sq miles)
  • east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
  • east hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
  • eastern ghats — a mountain range in S India, parallel to the Bay of Bengal: united with the Western Ghats by the Nilgiri Hills; forms the E margin of the Deccan plateau
  • eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
  • eastern shore — the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, including parts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
  • electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
  • embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
  • enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
  • enchantresses — Plural form of enchantress.
  • encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
  • enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
  • erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
  • erythroblasts — Plural form of erythroblast.
  • ethnographers — Plural form of ethnographer.
  • ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
  • eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
  • exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
  • factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
  • false-hearted — having a false or treacherous heart; deceitful; perfidious.
  • fast ethernet — (networking)   A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. The relevant standards are 100BaseT, 100BaseFX and 100BaseVG.
  • father lasher — a large sea scorpion, Myoxocephalus scorpius, occurring in British and European coastal waters
  • feather grass — any American grass of the genus Stipa, having a feathery appendage.
  • featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
  • featherstitch — an embroidery stitch producing work in which a succession of branches extend alternately on each side of a central stem.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
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