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.