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

  • herpetologist — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
  • heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
  • heteroclitous — heteroclite
  • heteroglossia — (linguistics) the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code.
  • heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
  • heterostylism — the condition of being heterostyled
  • heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
  • hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
  • hieroglyphist — a person who studies hieroglyphics; hieroglyphologist.
  • hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
  • histochemical — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
  • homosexuality — sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own sex.
  • horse trailer — lorry for transporting a horse
  • hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
  • hospital case — a patient that is being, or needs to be, treated in a hospital
  • house trailer — a trailer fitted with accommodations for sleeping, eating, washing, etc.
  • hunter trials — a test for hunters held under the auspices of a hunt, in which the course is laid with obstacles to simulate actual hunting conditions.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hypersalinity — an excess of salt in a saline solution
  • hypochlorites — Plural form of hypochlorite.
  • hyposexuality — A significantly low level of sexuality.
  • hypotheticals — Plural form of hypothetical.
  • hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
  • in a nutshell — the shell of a nut.
  • in silhouette — If you see something in silhouette, you see it as a dark shape with no detail except for the outline.
  • in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
  • in the saddle — a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.
  • inexhaustible — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
  • inexhaustibly — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
  • isle of wightIsle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
  • isle of youthIsle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
  • joseph lister — Joseph, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis [lahym ree-jis] /laɪm ˈri dʒɪs/ (Show IPA), 1827–1912, English surgeon: founder of modern antiseptic surgery.
  • joseph stalinJoseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
  • kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
  • kettle stitch — (in handsewing) a knot tied in the thread that links one section to the next.
  • kettle-stitch — a stitch used in hand-sewn books, at the head and tail, to hold sheets or sections together
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • let sth slide — If you let something slide, you allow it to get into a worse state or condition by not attending to it.
  • liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
  • lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
  • liechtenstein — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
  • light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
  • lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • lightlessness — The state or condition of being lightless; absence of light.
  • lightsomeness — (archaic) The quality of being lightsome.
  • line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
  • list enhanced — (operating system, tool)   An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
  • lithesomeness — the quality of being flexible and supple
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