13-letter words containing t, h, i, n, e, r
- ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
- ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
- ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
- event horizon — the surface around a black hole enclosing the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escape due to gravitational attraction. For a non-rotating black hole, the radius is proportional to the mass of the black hole
- exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
- exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
- extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.
- 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.
- festschriften — Plural form of festschrift.
- fill her tins — to complete a home baking of cakes, biscuits, etc
- 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
- first-nighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- for one thing — the first reason is
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
- 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 whittle — Sir 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
- frighten into — If you frighten someone into doing something they would not normally do, you make them do it by making them afraid not to do it.
- frighteningly — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
- 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.
- generic thunk — (programming) A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
- genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
- gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- 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.
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- gopher client — (networking) A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
- 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.
- gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
- guttersnipish — Resembling or characteristic of a guttersnipe.
- half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
- 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.
- hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.