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13-letter words containing t, h, i, n, a, r

  • drink to that — People say 'I'll drink to that' to show that they agree with and approve of something that someone has just said.
  • earth science — any of various sciences, as geography, geology, or meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects.
  • earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
  • eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
  • enantiomorphy — the state of being enantiomorphic
  • enterohepatic — Relating to or denoting the circulation of bile salts and other secretions from the liver to the intestine, where they are reabsorbed into the blood and returned to the liver.
  • enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
  • enthrallingly — In an enthralling way.
  • epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
  • etherealizing — Present participle of etherealize.
  • ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
  • ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
  • exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
  • faint-hearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
  • farther india — a peninsula in SE Asia, between India and China: consists of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia
  • father-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
  • featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • frank whittleSir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
  • freight agent — a representative of a common carrier who manages the freight business in a local district.
  • freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
  • freight train — a train of freight cars.
  • 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.
  • frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
  • fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
  • gangster chic — a cinematic or literary genre which seeks to glamorize the criminal underworld
  • garnisheement — the process of arresting a debtor's money or property from the hands of a third party
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
  • gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
  • girl-watching — the activity of looking at young women to enjoy their attractiveness, perhaps with a view to starting a relationship
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
  • gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
  • grandad shirt — a long-sleeved collarless shirt
  • grantsmanship — skill in securing grants, as for research, from federal agencies, foundations, or the like.
  • gravity hinge — a hinge closing automatically by means of gravity.
  • great khingan — a mountain range in NE China: highest peak, 5000 feet (1525 meters).
  • gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
  • hainan strait — a strait between Hainan island and Leizhou peninsula. 50 miles (81 km) long; 15 miles (24 km) wide.
  • hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
  • half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
  • hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
  • hang in there — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
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