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

  • corinthianize — to live a promiscuous life
  • cough mixture — Cough mixture is the same as cough medicine.
  • counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
  • counterthesis — A thesis that rebuts another.
  • counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
  • counterweight — A counterweight is an action or proposal that is intended to balance or counter other actions or proposals.
  • court hearing — an official meeting held in court
  • credit crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
  • crime-fighter — any person, as a law-enforcement officer or government official, who works to prevent crime or to enforce criminal laws.
  • crotchetiness — The state or quality of being crotchety.
  • cruiserweight — A cruiserweight is another name for a light heavyweight.
  • cryotherapies — Plural form of cryotherapy.
  • cryptesthesia — allegedly paranormal perception, as clairvoyance or clairaudience.
  • cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
  • cyberthriller — A thriller whose plot hinges on cyberspace.
  • cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
  • dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
  • date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
  • death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
  • dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
  • demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
  • diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
  • diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
  • diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
  • diethyl ether — ether (def 1).
  • dimmer switch — A dimmer switch is an electrical switch which turns off the full beam of a headlamp and turns on the low beam.
  • dimmer-switch — a person or thing that dims.
  • dinitrophenol — any of the six isomers consisting of phenol where two hydrogen atoms are substituted by nitro groups, C 6 H 4 N 2 O 5 , used in dyes and wood preservatives, and in biochemistry to uncouple oxidative phosphorylation.
  • direct method — a technique of foreign-language teaching in which only the target language is used, little instruction is given concerning formal rules of grammar, and language use is often elicited in situational contexts.
  • direct speech — actual words spoken, not quoted or reported
  • directorships — Plural form of directorship.
  • disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • dish the dirt — share gossip
  • disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
  • disinheriting — Present participle of disinherit.
  • disinthralled — freed from thraldom
  • distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • divine mother — the creative, dynamic aspect of the Godhead, the consort or Shakti of Brahma, Vishnu, or Shiva, variously known as Devi, Durga, Kālī, Shakti, etc.
  • divinyl ether — vinyl ether.
  • domain theory — (theory)   A branch of mathematics introduced by Dana Scott in 1970 as a mathematical theory of programming languages, and for nearly a quarter of a century developed almost exclusively in connection with denotational semantics in computer science. In denotational semantics of programming languages, the meaning of a program is taken to be an element of a domain. A domain is a mathematical structure consisting of a set of values (or "points") and an ordering relation, <= on those values. Domain theory is the study of such structures. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq) Different domains correspond to the different types of object with which a program deals. In a language containing functions, we might have a domain X -> Y which is the set of functions from domain X to domain Y with the ordering f <= g iff for all x in X, f x <= g x. In the pure lambda-calculus all objects are functions or applications of functions to other functions. To represent the meaning of such programs, we must solve the recursive equation over domains, D = D -> D which states that domain D is (isomorphic to) some function space from D to itself. I.e. it is a fixed point D = F(D) for some operator F that takes a domain D to D -> D. The equivalent equation has no non-trivial solution in set theory. There are many definitions of domains, with different properties and suitable for different purposes. One commonly used definition is that of Scott domains, often simply called domains, which are omega-algebraic, consistently complete CPOs. There are domain-theoretic computational models in other branches of mathematics including dynamical systems, fractals, measure theory, integration theory, probability theory, and stochastic processes. See also abstract interpretation, bottom, pointed domain.
  • domino theory — a theory that if one country is taken over by an expansionist, especially Communist, neighbor, party, or the like, the nearby nations will be taken over one after another.
  • doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • dorothy dixer — a parliamentary question asked by a member of the government so that the minister may give a prepared answer
  • downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
  • draw the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
  • drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
  • drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
  • dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
  • dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
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