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13-letter words containing e, i, t, h, r

  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
  • strengthening — to make stronger; give strength to.
  • string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • stuffed shirt — a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.
  • subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
  • superthriller — a highly sensational film or book
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • switch-hitter — to be able to bat from either side of the plate, or both as a left-handed and as a right-handed batter.
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • tahrir square — a large square in central Cairo, in Egypt. The name, meaning ‘liberation’, was used informally after the 1919 revolution and then officially after the 1952 revolution. Scene of mass demonstrations in 2011 against the government of president Hosni Mubarak
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • teething ring — a circular ring, usually of plastic, ivory, bone, etc., on which a teething baby can bite.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the antarctic — Antarctica and the surrounding waters
  • the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
  • the argentine — Argentina
  • the artillery — the branch of an army specializing in the use of heavy mounted guns
  • the caribbean — the states and islands of the Caribbean Sea, including the West Indies, when considered as a geopolitical region
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • the ediacaran — the Ediacaran period or rock system
  • the far right — the more extreme supporters or advocates of social, political, or economic conservatism or reaction, based generally on a belief that things are better left unchanged
  • the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
  • the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
  • the hermitage — an art museum in St Petersburg, originally a palace built by Catherine the Great
  • the high road — the principal road from one place to another
  • the hué river — a river in central Vietnam that crosses the port of Hué
  • 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 narrative — the part of a literary work that relates events
  • the potteries — a region of W central England, in Staffordshire, in which the china and earthenware industries are concentrated
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • the rastafari — Rastafarians collectively
  • the spiritual — the realm of spirits
  • the squitters — diarrhoea
  • the superrich — exceptionally wealthy people, considered collectively
  • the third age — old age, esp when viewed as an opportunity for travel, further education, etc
  • theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
  • theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
  • theatricality — of or relating to the theater or dramatic presentations: theatrical performances.
  • theatricalize — to put into dramatic or theatrical form; dramatize.
  • theoretically — of, relating to, or consisting in theory; not practical (distinguished from applied).
  • therapeutical — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
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