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.