13-letter words containing r, h, i, n, t
- ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
- ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
- reading light — any small electric light that you use for reading. You can usually move it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading. It can be attached to a wall or shelf in the home, or be above your head inside an aircraft or other vehicle.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- resident head — someone who is charge of running and supervising a student residence
- retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
- return flight — a flight going back
- rhadamanthine — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
- rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
- rhythmization — the act or process of rhythmizing something
- right as rain — perfectly healthy
- right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
- right-brained — having the right brain dominant, therefore being more adept at spatial and nonverbal concepts and being more creative and emotional than logical and analytical.
- right-to-know — of or relating to laws or policies that make certain government or company data and records available to any individual who has a right or need to know their contents.
- righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
- ring the bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
- rising rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of metrical feet each of which is composed of one accented syllable preceded by one or more unaccented ones.
- rolling hitch — a hitch on a spar or the like, composed of two round turns and a half hitch so disposed as to jam when a stress is applied parallel to the object on which the hitch is made.
- run away with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
- running light — any of various lights required to be displayed by a vessel or aircraft operating between sunset and sunrise.
- ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
- sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
- scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- screen rights — the rights to make a film version of a book
- self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
- sergeant fish — cobia
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- sheet erosion — Geology. erosion by sheets of running water, rather than by streams.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- shooting iron — a firearm, especially a pistol or revolver.
- shooting star — meteor (def 1b).
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- shopping trip — visit to the shops
- short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- sight reading — the act or skill of performing unfamiliar written music, or of translating something written in a foreign language, readily on sight, without previous study
- single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- south african — of southern Africa.