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11-letter words containing e, a, r, t, h

  • stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.
  • stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
  • stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
  • straichtest — straightest
  • straightest — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • strap hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • straphanger — a passenger who stands in a crowded bus or subway train and holds onto a strap or other support suspended from above.
  • strathclyde — a region in SW Scotland. 5300 sq. mi. (13,727 sq. km).
  • strawweight — a boxer of the lightest competitive class, especially a boxer weighing up to 104 pounds (47.2 kg).
  • sub-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
  • super-earth — a hypothetical planet larger than the earth but smaller than the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, thought to be orbiting the sun beyond the Kuiper belt but nearer than the Oort cloud: its existence is suggested by two known dwarf planets in a similar orbit
  • superheated — If a liquid is superheated, it has been heated to a temperature that is higher than its boiling point without being allowed to boil.
  • swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
  • sweat shirt — a heavy, loose, usually long-sleeved pullover made of cotton jersey, worn as by athletes to absorb sweat during or after exercise, sometimes with loose trousers (sweat pants) of the same material, forming an ensemble (sweat suit)
  • sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
  • tacheometer — a type of theodolite designed for the rapid measurement of distances, elevations, and directions
  • tacheometry — the measurement of distance, etc, using a tacheometer
  • tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
  • tack hammer — a light hammer for driving tacks, often magnetized to hold the tack to the head.
  • take charge — able or seemingly able to take charge: She is a take-charge management type.
  • take fright — be scared off
  • take-charge — able or seemingly able to take charge: She is a take-charge management type.
  • tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
  • tautochrone — a curve upon which a moving object will reach a certain point at the same time through gravity from whichever point it starts
  • tax shelter — any financial arrangement (as a certain kind of investment or allowance) that results in a reduction or elimination of taxes due.
  • taxgatherer — a person who collects taxes.
  • teachership — a person who teaches or instructs, especially as a profession; instructor.
  • technocracy — a theory and movement, prominent about 1932, advocating control of industrial resources, reform of financial institutions, and reorganization of the social system, based on the findings of technologists and engineers.
  • tectibranch — a mollusc of the suborder Tectibranchia (or Tectibranchiata) (order: Opisthobranchia) which includes the sea slugs and sea hares
  • telearchics — the remote control of electronic devices
  • telegraphed — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
  • telegraphic — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • teletheater — an off-track betting facility in which horse races are viewed on television.
  • teletherapy — treatment in which the source of therapy is some distance from the body, as certain radiation therapies.
  • tengri khan — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan Mountains. About 23,950 feet (7300 meters).
  • tenorrhaphy — suture of a tendon.
  • tented arch — a particular arch-like pattern in a fingerprint
  • tenth grade — (in the US) the tenth year of school, when students are 15 or 16 years old
  • tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
  • terre haute — a city in W Indiana, on the Wabash River.
  • tertianship — (in the Jesuit order) a period of strict discipline before the taking of final vows, beginning one or two years after ordination.
  • tetradrachm — an ancient coin with a value of four drachmas
  • tetrahedral — pertaining to or having the form of a tetrahedron.
  • tetrahedron — Geometry. a solid contained by four plane faces; a triangular pyramid.
  • tetrahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) tetrahydroxy.
  • tetrahymena — any ciliated protozoan of the genus Tetrahymena, a relative of the paramecium: often used in genetics research.
  • tetratheism — the belief that the Christian God is four persons
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