13-letter words containing h, s, t, r, e
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- 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.
- disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- dish the dirt — share gossip
- disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disinheriting — Present participle of disinherit.
- disinthralled — freed from thraldom
- distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- do the honors — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- 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.
- draw the shot — to deliver the bowl in such a way that it approaches the jack
- dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
- 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.
- 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.
- earth-goddess — a goddess of fertility and vegetation.
- 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)
- east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
- east hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
- eastern ghats — a mountain range in S India, parallel to the Bay of Bengal: united with the Western Ghats by the Nilgiri Hills; forms the E margin of the Deccan plateau
- eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
- eastern shore — the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, including parts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
- electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.
- electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
- electrophones — Plural form of electrophone.
- electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- enchantresses — Plural form of enchantress.
- encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
- enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
- entrenchments — Plural form of entrenchment.
- erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
- erythroblasts — Plural form of erythroblast.
- esthesiometer — an instrument for measuring the sensitivity of the sense of touch, esp. one for testing how far apart two points pressed against the skin have to be for the points to be felt as separate
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- ethnographers — Plural form of ethnographer.
- ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
- ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
- eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
- exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
- exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
- extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.