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13-letter words containing s, h, a, r, e, t

  • stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
  • swash letters — italic capital letters formed with long tails and flourishes
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • tahrir square — a large square in central Cairo, in Egypt. The name, meaning ‘liberation’, was used informally after the 1919 revolution and then officially after the 1952 revolution. Scene of mass demonstrations in 2011 against the government of president Hosni Mubarak
  • take sth hard — If you take something hard, you are very upset or depressed by it.
  • tapestry moth — carpet moth.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • teacher's pet — a pupil who is a favorite of a teacher.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • that's better — You say 'That's better' in order to express your approval of what someone has said or done, or to praise or encourage them.
  • the adversary — Satan
  • the best part — If you say that something happened for the best part or the better part of a period of time, you mean that it happened for most of that time.
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • the last word — final retort
  • the necessary — the money required for a particular purpose
  • the northeast — any area lying in or towards this direction
  • the pole star — the star closest to the N celestial pole at any particular time. At present this is Polaris, but it will eventually be replaced by some other star owing to precession of the earth's axis
  • the rastafari — Rastafarians collectively
  • the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
  • the smart set — The smart set is a group of fashionable and wealthy people.
  • the spiritual — the realm of spirits
  • the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
  • theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
  • thermal baths — warm water spa
  • 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.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thermesthesia — ability to perceive or sense cold or heat; sensitiveness to heat.
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
  • 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.
  • thermostatted — 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.
  • thesaurus.com — a popular free online dictionary of synonyms and antonyms: Thesaurus.com.
  • thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
  • third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
  • thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
  • thomas hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
  • thoracenteses — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
  • thoracentesis — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
  • thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
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