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

  • cove lighting — indirect lighting directed upward from an interior cornice or the like toward a cove at the edge of the ceiling.
  • cradle scythe — cradle (def 4b).
  • cruel-hearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
  • culture clash — a conflict arising from the interaction of people with different cultural values
  • culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
  • cyanoethylate — to introduce a cyano-ethyl group into
  • cyberthriller — A thriller whose plot hinges on cyberspace.
  • cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
  • daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
  • daylight time — time set usually one hour ahead of the local standard time, widely adopted in the summer to provide extra daylight in the evening
  • death penalty — The death penalty is the punishment of death used in some countries for people who have committed very serious crimes.
  • death-dealing — fatal; lethal
  • deathlessness — The state of being deathless; eternity.
  • delightedness — The quality of being delighted; great pleasure.
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
  • demythologise — to divest of mythological or legendary attributes or forms, as in order to permit clearer appraisal and understanding: to demythologize the music dramas of Richard Wagner for modern listeners.
  • demythologize — to eliminate all mythical elements from (a piece of writing, esp the Bible) so as to arrive at an essential meaning
  • depathologize — (transitive) To cease to treat as a medical disorder.
  • dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
  • detachability — The quality of being detachable.
  • dialect coach — a person whose job is to train actors to speak in the authentic accent and manner of a particular area
  • diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
  • diethyl ether — ether (def 1).
  • diethyl oxide — ether (def 1).
  • diethylacetal — acetal (def 1).
  • dilettanteish — Alternative form of dilettantish.
  • dimethylamine — a colourless strong-smelling gas produced from ammonia and methanol, used to produce many industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals
  • dimethylketol — acetoin.
  • 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.
  • diotheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
  • diphenoxylate — a substance, C 30 H 32 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride in the treatment of diarrhea.
  • disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • dishabilitate — to disqualify
  • disinthralled — freed from thraldom
  • divinyl ether — vinyl ether.
  • 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.
  • double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • doughnut hole — a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans
  • down the line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
  • down-the-line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
  • downheartedly — In a downhearted 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.
  • drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
  • dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
  • dual-attached — The form of FDDI interface where a device is connected to both FDDI token-passing rings, so that uninterrupted operation continues in the event of a failure of either of the rings. All connections to the main FDDI rings are dual-attached. Typically, a small number of critical infrastructure devices such as routers and concentrators are dual-attached, whereas host computers are normally single-attached or dual-homed to a router or concentrator. For example, a ring could be formed between a single router and two concentrators (all dual-attached) then all other components that need to be fault-tolerant (typically file servers) can be dual-homed to both concentrators.
  • dyothelitical — relating to dyotheletism
  • ease the helm — to relieve the pressure on the rudder of a vessel, esp by bringing the bow into the wind
  • eight o'clock — 8 a.m.
  • electric hare — (in greyhound racing) a model of a hare, mounted on an electrified rail, which the dogs chase
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