13-letter words containing o, r, t, h, e, l
- clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
- 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.
- club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
- coal merchant — a person engaged in the purchase and sale of coal for profit
- cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
- coldheartedly — Alternative spelling of cold-heartedly.
- collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
- copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
- culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
- cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
- diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
- dinitrophenol — any of the six isomers consisting of phenol where two hydrogen atoms are substituted by nitro groups, C 6 H 4 N 2 O 5 , used in dyes and wood preservatives, and in biochemistry to uncouple oxidative phosphorylation.
- 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.
- downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
- drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- electrochemic — electrochemical
- electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.
- electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
- electrophilic — (of a molecule or group) having a tendency to attract or acquire electrons.
- electrophones — Plural form of electrophone.
- electrophonic — Relating to electronic equipment to produce sound (this adjectival sense is not comparable).
- electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
- electrothermy — the use of electrically produced heat for therapeutic purposes
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- eleventh hour — If someone does something at the eleventh hour, they do it at the last possible moment.
- epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
- epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
- eproctophilia — Sexual arousal from flatulence.
- erythroblasts — Plural form of erythroblast.
- ethchlorvynol — A sedative and hypnotic drug used to treat insomnia.
- ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
- exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
- extremophiles — Plural form of extremophile.
- fighter pilot — sb who pilots a bomber plane
- flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
- for the world — If you say that you would not do something for the world, you are emphasizing that you definitely would not do it.
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- foresightless — lacking foresight
- form the fool — to play the fool or behave irritatingly
- formal theory — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
- fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
- full throttle — used in the phrase at full throttle, at full speed or with great intensity