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13-letter words containing s, i, t, r

  • astrophysical — Of or pertaining to astrophysics.
  • at first hand — If you learn or experience something at first hand, you experience it yourself or learn it directly rather than being told about it by other people.
  • aten asteroid — one of a small group of asteroids whose orbits cross that of the earth and whose semimajor axes are smaller than that of the earth.
  • athenagoras i — (Aristocles Spyrou) 1886–1972, Archbishop Ecumenical of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church 1948–72.
  • atherogenesis — (medicine) The formation of atheromas, especially on the walls of the arteries.
  • atmospherical — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • atrabilarious — Characterized by melancholy or gloom.
  • atrociousness — The state of being atrocious.
  • australia day — a public holiday in Australia, commemorating the landing of the British in 1788: observed on January 26
  • australianism — the Australian national character or spirit
  • australianize — (esp of a new immigrant) to adopt or cause to adopt Australian habits and attitudes; integrate into Australian society
  • austrian pine — an evergreen tree, Pina nigra austriaca
  • austroasiatic — a family of languages spoken in SE Asia and the landsaround the Bay of Bengal and consisting principally of Vietnamese, Khmer, Mon, Khasi, Nicobarese, and the Munda languages.
  • authorisation — Alternative spelling of authorization.
  • autocatharsis — a therapeutic process designed to free unconscious disturbances by having the patient write about his or her experiences, impressions, etc.
  • autoeroticism — the arousal and use of one's own body as a sexual object, as through masturbation
  • autorickshaws — Plural form of autorickshaw.
  • avant-gardism — the attitudes, techniques, etc., of the cultural avant-garde.
  • back straight — a straight part of a circuit, esp of an athletics track or a racecourse, furthest from the finishing point
  • backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
  • bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
  • bacteriolysis — the destruction or disintegration of bacteria
  • bacterioscopy — the examination of bacteria with a microscope.
  • bacteriostats — Plural form of bacteriostat.
  • bag of tricks — a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch.
  • ballistospore — a spore, esp a fungal spore, that is forcefully ejected from its source
  • banister back — a back of a chair or the like, usually having semicircular spindles between the top rail and the cross rail or seat.
  • barber's itch — any of various fungal infections of the bearded portion of the neck and face
  • barley stripe — a disease of barley, characterized by blighted heads and chlorotic, brown, or frayed stripes on the leaves, caused by a fungus, Helminthosporium gramineum.
  • barosinusitis — aerosinusitis.
  • barristership — the office of a barrister
  • bartholinitis — Inflammation of Bartholin's cyst.
  • basic fortran — (language)   A subset of Fortran.
  • basket dinner — a group social gathering, as of church members, to which participants contribute casseroles or other dishes to share.
  • bass clarinet — a clarinet with the lowest range, in the octave below the B-flat clarinet
  • bass-baritone — a singer or voice in the bass range with baritone qualities
  • bastard eigne — the first-born illegitimate son of parents whose second son was legitimate.
  • bastard title — half title (def 1).
  • bastard-title — Also called bastard title. the first printed page of certain books, appearing after the end papers and before the title page and containing only the title of the book.
  • battlecruiser — A large warship of a type built in the early 20th century, carrying similar armament to a battleship but faster and more lightly armored.
  • beam splitter — a system that divides a beam of light, electrons, etc, into two or more paths
  • beaux esprits — bel esprit
  • beaux-esprits — plural of bel-esprit.
  • bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
  • bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
  • behavioristic — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
  • beige toaster — Macintosh
  • bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
  • bering strait — a strait between Alaska and Russia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean
  • best practice — Best practice is the way of running a business or providing a service that is recognized as correct or most effective.
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