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

  • cystathionine — an amino acid, C 7 H 14 O 4 N 2 S, that is an intermediate in the transfer of sulfur from methionine to cysteine.
  • cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
  • dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
  • 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
  • decahistidine — An oligopeptide consisting of ten histidine moieties.
  • deipnosophist — a person who is a master of dinner-table conversation
  • delightedness — The quality of being delighted; great pleasure.
  • demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
  • demythologise — to divest of mythological or legendary attributes or forms, as in order to permit clearer appraisal and understanding: to demythologize the music dramas of Richard Wagner for modern listeners.
  • diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
  • dilettanteish — Alternative form of dilettantish.
  • dimmer switch — A dimmer switch is an electrical switch which turns off the full beam of a headlamp and turns on the low beam.
  • dimmer-switch — a person or thing that dims.
  • direct speech — actual words spoken, not quoted or reported
  • directorships — Plural form of directorship.
  • disenchanting — Present participle of disenchant.
  • disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • dish the dirt — share gossip
  • dishabilitate — to disqualify
  • dishabituated — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
  • disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
  • disinheriting — Present participle of disinherit.
  • disinthralled — freed from thraldom
  • dispatch case — attaché case.
  • dispense with — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
  • distinguished — made conspicuous by excellence; noted; eminent; famous: a distinguished scholar. Synonyms: renowned, illustrious.
  • distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishes — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • dizzy heights — If you say that someone has reached the dizzy heights of something, you are emphasizing that they have reached a very high level by achieving it.
  • do the dishes — do the washing up, wash the dishes
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
  • driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
  • drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
  • dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
  • eating habits — the way a person or group eats, considered in terms of what types of food are eaten, in what quantities, and when
  • echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
  • electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
  • elephant fish — a large marine fish, Callorhinchus milii, of southwest Pacific waters, having a snout resembling an elephant's trunk
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • elephantiasis — A condition in which a limb or other part of the body becomes grossly enlarged due to obstruction of the lymphatic vessels, typically by the nematode parasites that cause filariasis.
  • embellishment — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
  • enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
  • endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
  • enhypostatize — to come together in one person or hypostasis
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