13-letter words containing h, s, t, r
- crystal habit — the external shape of a crystal
- 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
- cyclostrophic — pertaining to atmospheric motion in which the centripetal acceleration exactly balances the horizontal pressure force.
- cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
- cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
- danish pastry — Danish pastries are cakes made from sweet pastry. They are often filled with things such as apple or almond paste.
- dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
- dasht-i-kavir — a salt waste on the central plateau of Iran: a treacherous marsh beneath a salt crust
- 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- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- diaphragmitis — inflammation of the diaphragm, phrenitis
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- dictatorships — Plural form of dictatorship.
- 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.
- disinhibitory — (esp of a drug) causing temporary loss of inhibition
- 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.
- draftsmanship — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, as of machines, structures, etc.
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
- 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 a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
- 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.