13-letter words containing t, h, a, n, i, s
- parthian shot — a sharp, telling remark, act, gesture, etc., made in departing.
- pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
- phalansterian — of or relating to a phalanstery.
- phalansterism — a model of society in which members of a community live in the same space and share common belongings
- phantasmality — the condition or character of being incorporeal and illusory
- phonocamptics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes
- photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
- photo-stating — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- phytosanitary — of or relating to the health of plants
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- pleasant hill — a city in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
- point shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
- point-shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
- pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
- preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- prosthodontia — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
- psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
- psychasthenia — Psychiatry. (no longer in technical use) a neurosis marked by fear, anxiety, phobias, etc.
- psychasthenic — a person who has psychasthenia
- pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
- ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- resident head — someone who is charge of running and supervising a student residence
- rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
- right as rain — perfectly healthy
- saint anthony — Antony, Mark.
- saint matthew — a tax collector of Capernaum called by Christ to be one of the 12 apostles (Matthew 9:9–13; 10:3). Feast day: Sept 21 or Nov 16
- saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
- sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
- sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
- scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
- self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- sensible heat — Sensible heat is heat which is exchanged in an energy generation system, and which only affects the temperature of one or more substances.
- sergeant fish — cobia
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
- shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
- shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
- sheep station — a large sheep farm
- shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- shooting star — meteor (def 1b).
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred