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

  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
  • polycythaemia — an abnormal condition of the blood characterized by an increase in the number of red blood cells. It can occur as a primary disease of unknown cause (polycythaemia vera or erythraemia) or in association with respiratory or circulatory diseases
  • polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
  • prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
  • prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • pyrheliometer — an instrument for measuring the total intensity of the sun's energy radiation.
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • rehabilitator — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
  • remythologize — to mythologize anew, to make a new mythological system out of (an existing one)
  • reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
  • retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
  • right to life — When people talk about an unborn baby's right to life, they mean that a baby has the right to be born, even if it has a severe disability or if its mother does not want it.
  • right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
  • scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
  • shed light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
  • single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
  • sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
  • smooth collie — a breed of short-haired collie with a smooth, thick coat.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
  • stiletto heel — spike heel.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
  • technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • technopolitan — of or relating to a place or society dominated by technology
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
  • the good life — If you say that someone is living the good life, you mean that they are living in comfort and luxury with few problems or worries.
  • the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
  • the neolithic — the Neolithic period; New Stone Age
  • the oligocene — the Oligocene epoch or rock series
  • the paleozoic — the Paleozoic Era or its rocks
  • the spotlight — the focus of attention
  • the whole kit — everything or everybody
  • theologically — of, relating to, or involved with theology: a theological student.
  • theoretically — of, relating to, or consisting in theory; not practical (distinguished from applied).
  • thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
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