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13-letter words containing t, h, i, r, d

  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
  • picardy third — a major third in the final tonic chord of a composition written in a minor key.
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • presidentship — presidency.
  • pretendership — the standing of a pretender
  • prosthodontia — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
  • quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
  • radical right — the faction representing extreme right-wing political views; ultraconservatives; reactionaries.
  • radiesthesist — a practitioner of radiesthesia
  • reading light — any small electric light that you use for reading. You can usually move it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading. It can be attached to a wall or shelf in the home, or be above your head inside an aircraft or other vehicle.
  • reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • rehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • resident head — someone who is charge of running and supervising a student residence
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
  • rhadamanthine — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
  • rhodochrosite — a mineral, manganese carbonate, MnCO 3 , commonly containing some iron and calcium, and usually rose-red in color: a minor ore of manganese; manganese spar.
  • richard petty — Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
  • ride the rods — to steal a ride on a freight train
  • ride the wave — to enjoy a period of success and good fortune
  • right fielder — the player whose position is right field.
  • right-brained — having the right brain dominant, therefore being more adept at spatial and nonverbal concepts and being more creative and emotional than logical and analytical.
  • ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
  • rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
  • scratchpad ii — See Scratchpad I, AXIOM.
  • seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
  • sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • short-sighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
  • shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
  • sight reading — the act or skill of performing unfamiliar written music, or of translating something written in a foreign language, readily on sight, without previous study
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
  • spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
  • staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
  • straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • stuffed shirt — a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.
  • subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
  • the ediacaran — the Ediacaran period or rock system
  • the high road — the principal road from one place to another
  • the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
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