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

  • kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
  • kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
  • kitchen-diner — a kitchen that has an area intended to be used for eating meals, usually because there is no dining room elsewhere
  • kite fighting — (in Malaysia) a game in which one player attempts to cut the string of his opponent's kite with the string of his own
  • kittenishness — The state or condition of being kittenish.
  • knight errant — a wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds, etc.
  • knight-errant — a wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds, etc.
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • lateral chain — an open chain of atoms attached to an atom of a larger chain, or to a ring.
  • leading light — an important or influential person: a leading light of the community.
  • leap of faith — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
  • leptocephalic — having a narrow skull
  • let sth slide — If you let something slide, you allow it to get into a worse state or condition by not attending to it.
  • lethargically — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
  • lichenization — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
  • lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
  • liechtenstein — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
  • light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
  • light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
  • light therapy — therapeutic exposure to full-spectrum artificial light that simulates sunlight, used to treat various conditions, as seasonal affective disorder.
  • light vehicle — a vehicle designed to carry loads or a small number of passengers up to an officially determined weight, such as a scooter, motorbike, rickshaw, etc
  • light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
  • light-hearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • light-o'-love — a lover.
  • lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
  • lightheadedly — In a lightheaded manner.
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • lightlessness — The state or condition of being lightless; absence of light.
  • lightsomeness — (archaic) The quality of being lightsome.
  • like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
  • list enhanced — (operating system, tool)   An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
  • literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
  • lithesomeness — the quality of being flexible and supple
  • lithium oxide — a white powder, Li 2 O, with strong alkaline properties: used in ceramics and glass.
  • lithotripters — Plural form of lithotripter.
  • live together — cohabit
  • load the dice — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
  • lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
  • lose sight of — no longer see
  • lucifer match — friction match.
  • lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
  • lymphopoietin — (protein) A cytokine protein that has a function in T cell maturation.
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