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13-letter words containing t, h, e, o, d

  • epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
  • ethanoic acid — acetic acid
  • ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
  • eventide home — a retirement home
  • feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
  • flog to death — to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it
  • foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
  • for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • for the world — If you say that you would not do something for the world, you are emphasizing that you definitely would not do it.
  • foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • from the wood — (of a beverage) from a wooden container rather than a metal or glass one
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
  • ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
  • giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
  • go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
  • go to the bad — to become wicked, shiftless, etc.; degenerate
  • goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
  • gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
  • hartford fern — a climbing or sprawling fern, Lygodium palmatum, of the eastern U.S., having deeply lobed ivylike leaves.
  • hathor-headed — (of an ancient Egyptian column) having a capital in the form of the head of Hathor; Hathoric.
  • head of state — the person who holds the highest position in a national government: a meeting of heads of state.
  • head of steam — momentum; driving power
  • head of water — a quantity of water
  • hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
  • hemiterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C5 skeleton.
  • heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
  • here document — (operating system)   Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
  • hermaphrodite — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
  • hermaphrodyte — (archaic) alternative spelling of hermaphrodite.
  • herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
  • heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
  • hertfordshire — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
  • heterodimeric — (chemistry) produced from two similar but different monomers.
  • hexadactylous — hexadactylic
  • high old time — an enjoyable and exciting time
  • hold the fort — a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works; a fortress; fortification.
  • hold 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.
  • hold together — not fall apart
  • homestead act — a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
  • homestead law — any law exempting homesteads from seizure or sale for debt.
  • homoscedastic — having the same variance.
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