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

  • sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
  • sweet sorghum — sorgo.
  • sweet-toothed — having a strong liking for sweet foods
  • sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
  • tachistoscope — an apparatus for use in exposing visual stimuli, as pictures, letters, or words, for an extremely brief period, used chiefly to assess visual perception or to increase reading speed.
  • tapestry moth — carpet moth.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • that's enough — You say 'that's enough' to tell someone, especially a child, to stop behaving in a silly, noisy, or unpleasant way.
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the ascension — the bodily ascent of Jesus into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection: Acts 1:9
  • the big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
  • the big smoke — a large city, esp London
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the conscious — that part of one's mental activity of which one is fully aware at any given time
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
  • the last word — final retort
  • the northeast — any area lying in or towards this direction
  • the northwest — any area lying in or towards this direction
  • the offensive — an attitude or position of aggression
  • the oppressed — people who are subjugated by cruelty, force, etc
  • the pants off — If someone bores, charms, or scares the pants off you, for example, they bore, charm, or scare you a lot.
  • the pole star — the star closest to the N celestial pole at any particular time. At present this is Polaris, but it will eventually be replaced by some other star owing to precession of the earth's axis
  • the potteries — a region of W central England, in Staffordshire, in which the china and earthenware industries are concentrated
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
  • the southeast — the southeastern part of Britain, esp the London area
  • the southwest — the southwestern part of Britain, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • the spotlight — the focus of attention
  • the sum total — the result you get when you add numbers or amounts together
  • the worst off — those people who are in the worst situation
  • the-possessed — a novel (1871) by Dostoevsky.
  • the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
  • theodosius ii — a.d. 401–450, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 408–450.
  • 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.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
  • thermogenesis — the production of heat, especially in an animal body by physiological processes.
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermosetting — pertaining to a type of plastic, as the urea resins, that sets when heated and cannot be remolded.
  • thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
  • thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
  • thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
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