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13-letter words containing n, o, e, t, h, i

  • sheet erosion — Geology. erosion by sheets of running water, rather than by streams.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • south vietnam — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • spheristerion — an area designated for ballplay
  • station house — a police station or fire station.
  • string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • technopolitan — of or relating to a place or society dominated by technology
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the ascension — the bodily ascent of Jesus into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection: Acts 1:9
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the conscious — that part of one's mental activity of which one is fully aware at any given time
  • the continent — the mainland of Europe as distinguished from the British Isles
  • the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
  • the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
  • the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
  • the neolithic — the Neolithic period; New Stone Age
  • the offensive — an attitude or position of aggression
  • the oligocene — the Oligocene epoch or rock series
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • the unco guid — narrow-minded, excessively religious, or self-righteous people
  • theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
  • thematization — the mental act or process of selecting particular topics as themes in discourse or words as themes in sentences
  • thereinbefore — before that
  • thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thermogenesis — the production of heat, especially in an animal body by physiological processes.
  • thermosetting — pertaining to a type of plastic, as the urea resins, that sets when heated and cannot be remolded.
  • thermostating — 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.
  • thermotensile — of or relating to tensile strength in so far as it is affected by temperature
  • thespian lion — a lion that attacked the flocks of Amphitryon and was killed by Hercules.
  • thessalonians — a native or inhabitant of Thessalonike.
  • thiabendazole — a drug used as an antifungal treatment and as an anthelmintic
  • think less of — to have a lower opinion of
  • think more of — to have a higher opinion of
  • thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
  • thomas edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
  • thoracentesis — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
  • three-pointer — Basketball. a field goal worth three points, made from behind a specified line (three-point line)
  • thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • time-honoured — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
  • tip one's hat — to take off, raise, or touch one's hat in salutation
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