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

  • christmastide — the festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day.
  • christmastime — the Christmas season, traditionally from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day or to Epiphany (Jan. 6)
  • chromaticness — the attribute of colour that involves both hue and saturation
  • chromesthesia — (neurology, psychology) sound-to-color synaesthesia.
  • chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
  • chrysophilite — a person who loves gold
  • chrysotherapy — gold therapy.
  • cigarette ash — the ash created by smoking a cigarette
  • city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
  • class teacher — a teacher who teaches a class
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
  • clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
  • clothes horse — A clothes horse is a folding frame used inside someone's house to hang washing on while it dries.
  • clothes-horse — Informal. a person whose chief interest and pleasure is dressing fashionably.
  • clothes-press — a piece of furniture for storing clothes, usually containing wide drawers and a cabinet
  • clotheshorses — Plural form of clotheshorse.
  • collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
  • come up short — disappoint
  • containership — a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo
  • contour sheet — a bed sheet designed to fit snugly over a mattress or the like, often having elastic material to hold down the corners.
  • copartnership — a partnership or association between two equals, esp in a business enterprise
  • core strength — the strength of the underlying muscles of the torso, which help determine posture
  • counter shaft — A counter shaft is a shaft that runs parallel to the main shaft in a gearbox, and carries the pinion wheels.
  • counterchecks — Plural form of countercheck.
  • countershafts — Plural form of countershaft.
  • counterthesis — A thesis that rebuts another.
  • counterthrust — an opposing or retaliatory thrust, esp in warfare or combat sports
  • counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
  • country house — A country house is a large, often attractive, house in the country, usually one that is or was owned by a rich or noble family.
  • cradle scythe — cradle (def 4b).
  • creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
  • cross the bar — to die
  • crotchetiness — The state or quality of being crotchety.
  • crow-pheasant — a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.
  • cruiserweight — A cruiserweight is another name for a light heavyweight.
  • 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
  • culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
  • cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
  • cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
  • 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
  • depth sounder — an instrument for determining depths under water, especially under a ship.
  • dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
  • deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
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