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

  • puritan ethic — work ethic.
  • pyrimethamine — a potent substance, C 1 2 H 1 3 ClN 4 , used against susceptible plasmodia in the prophylactic treatment of malaria and against Toxoplasma gondi in the treatment of toxoplasmosis.
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
  • 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.
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • resident head — someone who is charge of running and supervising a student residence
  • retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • 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.
  • rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
  • right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
  • 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.
  • righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
  • ring the bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
  • runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
  • ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
  • 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
  • scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
  • screen rights — the rights to make a film version of a book
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • sheet erosion — Geology. erosion by sheets of running water, rather than by streams.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
  • 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 father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • spheristerion — an area designated for ballplay
  • sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
  • stirlingshire — Also called Stirlingshire [stur-ling-sheer, -sher] /ˈstɜr lɪŋˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in central Scotland.
  • straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
  • strengthening — to make stronger; give strength to.
  • string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
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