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13-letter words containing t, a, o, i, e, h

  • phone-tapping — Phone-tapping is the activity of listening secretly to someone's phone conversations using special electronic equipment. In most cases phone-tapping is illegal.
  • photoallergic — photosensitive.
  • photochemical — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
  • photocopiable — able or legally permitted to be photocopied
  • photogelatine — relating to photographic processes in which gelatine is used in receiving or transferring prints
  • photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
  • photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • phreatophytic — of, possessing the properties of, or relating to a phreatophyte
  • physiotherapy — physical therapy.
  • phytochemical — Also called phytonutrient. any of various bioactive chemical compounds found in plants, as antioxidants, considered to be beneficial to human health.
  • piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • pointy-headed — stupid; idiotic.
  • polycythaemia — an abnormal condition of the blood characterized by an increase in the number of red blood cells. It can occur as a primary disease of unknown cause (polycythaemia vera or erythraemia) or in association with respiratory or circulatory diseases
  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • porkpie (hat) — a man's soft hat with a round, flat crown
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
  • private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
  • prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • rehabilitator — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
  • retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
  • right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
  • scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
  • scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • sheep station — a large sheep farm
  • ship of state — a nation or its affairs likened to a ship under sail.
  • short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • sophisticated — sophisticated.
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
  • south ossetia — a region in N Georgia, on the S side of the Caucasus Range. 1506 sq. mi. (3900 sq. km).
  • south vietnam — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
  • spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
  • staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
  • station house — a police station or fire station.
  • stovepipe hat — a tall silk hat.
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
  • tachistoscope — an apparatus for use in exposing visual stimuli, as pictures, letters, or words, for an extremely brief period, used chiefly to assess visual perception or to increase reading speed.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
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