13-letter words containing t, e, r, s, i, a
- thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
- third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
- 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.
- time reversal — the mathematical operation of reversing the direction of time. Symbol: T.
- timed-release — sustained-release.
- tinker's damn — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- to raise hell — If you say that someone raises hell, you are emphasizing that they protest strongly and angrily about a situation in order to persuade other people to correct it or improve it.
- toastmistress — a woman who presides at a dinner, introduces the after-dinner speakers, and often proposes toasts.
- topoisomerase — any of a class of enzymes that control the coiling of DNA molecules
- torres strait — a strait between NE Australia and S New Guinea. 80 miles (130 km) wide.
- tract society — a society that publishes and distributes religious pamphlets.
- trade dispute — a dispute between workers and their employer
- trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
- trade mission — commercial business trip
- tradesmanlike — like or characteristic of a tradesman
- trailer trash — poor white person
- train service — provision of railway transport
- train spotter — a person who collects the numbers of railway locomotives
- train-workers — people who work on trains
- trained nurse — graduate nurse.
- training shoe — Training shoes are the same as trainers.
- trans-oceanic — extending across or traversing the ocean: a transoceanic cable.
- transactinide — any element having an atomic number higher than 103, the last of the actinide series. These superheavy, radioactive elements are extremely short-lived, and can only be created in the laboratory.
- transactivate — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
- transcriptase — RNA polymerase.
- transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
- transfeminine — noting or relating to a person who was born male but whose gender identity is more female than male.
- transfeminism — a movement supporting the belief that the rights of transgender women are linked to the feminist movement, specifically the right to assume a gender identity that does not correspond to one’s biological sex assigned at birth.
- transfer list — In football, a transfer list is a list of players at a club who may be sold to other clubs.
- transfrontier — the part of a country that borders another country; boundary; border.
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- transgression — an act of transgressing; violation of a law, command, etc.; sin.
- transgressive — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
- transientness — the quality or state of being transient
- transistorize — to equip with or convert to a circuit employing transistors.
- transliterate — to change (letters, words, etc.) into corresponding characters of another alphabet or language: to transliterate the Greek Χ as ch.
- transmissible — capable of being transmitted.
- transmittable — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- transmittance — Physics. the ratio of the radiant flux transmitted through and emerging from a body to the total flux incident on it: equivalent to one minus the absorptance.
- transmutative — the act or process of transmuting.
- traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.
- treasurership — a person in charge of treasure or a treasury.
- treasury bill — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
- treponemiasis — infection with treponema; syphilis.
- tributariness — the state of being tributary
- trilateralism — the policy or practice of maintaining relations and cooperation between three groups, nations, or regions.
- trilateralist — one engaged in trilateralism
- triliteralism — the characteristic presence of triliteral roots in a language, as in the Semitic languages.
- trisaccharide — a carbohydrate composed of three monosaccharide units, and hydrolyzable to a monosaccharide or a mixture of monosaccharides.