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

  • thermaesthesia — ability to perceive or sense cold or heat; sensitiveness to heat.
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
  • thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
  • thermochromism — a phenomenon in which certain dyes made from liquid crystals change colour reversibly when their temperature is changed
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thesaurismosis — storage disease.
  • thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
  • thick register — chest register.
  • think positive — be optimistic
  • thirty-seventh — next after the thirty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 37.
  • thorium series — the radioactive series that starts with thorium and ends with a stable isotope of lead of mass number 208.
  • three-base hit — triple (def 7).
  • throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
  • tip one's hand — the act of tipping.
  • tip the scales — to exercise a decisive influence
  • to strike home — If something that is thrown or fired strikes home, it reaches its target.
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • training shoes — running shoes for sports training, esp in contrast to studded or spiked shoes worn for the sport itself
  • trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
  • trophoneurosis — a disorder caused by defective functioning of the trophic nerves
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • turkish coffee — a strong, usually sweetened coffee, made by boiling the pulverized coffee beans.
  • turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
  • turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
  • twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
  • tymshare, inc. — (company)   The US company that created the TYMNET network.
  • tyrrhenian sea — a part of the Mediterranean, bounded by W Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily.
  • un-synthesized — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
  • unanesthetised — not anaesthetised
  • unchristianize — to make unchristian; to render no longer Christian; to remove Christian status or nature from
  • under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
  • unenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
  • unextinguished — to put out (a fire, light, etc.); put out the flame of (something burning or lighted): to extinguish a candle.
  • unfaithfulness — not faithful; false to duty, obligation, or promises; faithless; disloyal.
  • unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
  • unhysterically — in a way that does not show or suggest any hysteria; calmly; rationally
  • unknightliness — the quality or condition of being unknightly
  • unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
  • unsophisticate — not sophisticated
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
  • vestavia hills — a city in central Alabama, near Birmingham.
  • vitreous humor — the transparent gelatinous substance filling the eyeball behind the crystalline lens.
  • washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
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