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

  • draftsmanship — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, as of machines, structures, etc.
  • driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
  • drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
  • drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
  • earth science — any of various sciences, as geography, geology, or meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects.
  • earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
  • east ayrshire — a council area of SW Scotland, comprising the E part of the historical county of Ayrshire: part of Strathclyde region from 1975 to 1996: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Kilmarnock. Pop: 119 530 (2003 est). Area: 1252 sq km (483 sq miles)
  • eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
  • electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
  • enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
  • esthesiometer — an instrument for measuring the sensitivity of the sense of touch, esp. one for testing how far apart two points pressed against the skin have to be for the points to be felt as separate
  • ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
  • ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
  • ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
  • eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
  • exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
  • exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
  • extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.
  • extremophiles — Plural form of extremophile.
  • featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
  • featherstitch — an embroidery stitch producing work in which a succession of branches extend alternately on each side of a central stem.
  • festschriften — Plural form of festschrift.
  • fill her tins — to complete a home baking of cakes, biscuits, etc
  • fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • first-nighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
  • fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • foresightless — lacking foresight
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
  • galois theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the theory of finite groups to the solution of algebraic equations.
  • gangster chic — a cinematic or literary genre which seeks to glamorize the criminal underworld
  • garnisheement — the process of arresting a debtor's money or property from the hands of a third party
  • garter stitch — a basic knitting pattern that produces an evenly pebbled texture on both sides of the work, created by consistently knitting or purling every stitch of every row.
  • gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • gastrorrhagia — (medical) A hemorrhage from the stomach, also known as a gastric hemorrhage.
  • ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
  • give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
  • gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
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