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

  • steamer chair — deck chair.
  • stem christie — a turn made by stemming one ski and then bringing the other parallel to it during the turn.
  • sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
  • stirlingshire — Also called Stirlingshire [stur-ling-sheer, -sher] /ˈstɜr lɪŋˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in central Scotland.
  • stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
  • straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
  • 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
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • 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.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • stuffed shirt — a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.
  • subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
  • superthriller — a highly sensational film or book
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • switch-hitter — to be able to bat from either side of the plate, or both as a left-handed and as a right-handed batter.
  • 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
  • tahrir square — a large square in central Cairo, in Egypt. The name, meaning ‘liberation’, was used informally after the 1919 revolution and then officially after the 1952 revolution. Scene of mass demonstrations in 2011 against the government of president Hosni Mubarak
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
  • 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 rastafari — Rastafarians collectively
  • the spiritual — the realm of spirits
  • the squitters — diarrhoea
  • the superrich — exceptionally wealthy people, considered collectively
  • theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
  • theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
  • 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.
  • thermesthesia — ability to perceive or sense cold or heat; sensitiveness to heat.
  • 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.
  • thermotensile — of or relating to tensile strength in so far as it is affected by temperature
  • thermotropism — oriented growth of an organism in response to heat.
  • thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
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