13-letter words containing t, h, o, r
- immunotherapy — treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.
- imperial moth — a yellow moth, Eacles imperialis, having a diagonal band of pinkish brown or purple: the hairy larvae feed on the leaves of hickory, oak, etc.
- in order that — used to introduce a clause of purpose
- in the groove — a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
- in the hopper — a person or thing that hops.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- inharmonicity — the quality of being inharmonic
- inspectorship — The condition of being an inspector; the office of an inspector.
- interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- into thin air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- intrathoracic — (anatomy) Within the thorax.
- iontophoresis — a painless alternative to drug injection in which a weak electrical current is used to stimulate drug-carrying ions to pass through intact skin.
- iontophoretic — Of or pertaining to iontophoresis.
- isobathytherm — a line on a chart or diagram of a body of water, connecting depths having the same temperature.
- isodrosotherm — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having an equal dew point.
- isothermobath — a line drawn on a diagram of a vertical section of the ocean connecting all points having equal temperature.
- jockey shorts — Jockey shorts are a type of men's underpants.
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- john mccarthy — (person, artificial intelligence) A pioneer of artificial intelligence (he coined ther term). He invented Lisp at MIT in the late 1950s and later worked at SAIL. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- john o'groats — the northern tip of Scotland, near Duncansby Head, NE Caithness, traditionally thought of as the northernmost point of Britain: from Land's End to John o'Groat's House.
- john winthrop — John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
- johore strait — a narrow strait between Malaya and Singapore Island
- joint honours — an honours university degree in which a student studies two separate subjects, as opposed to a single subject
- joseph crater — Joseph Force [fawrs,, fohrs] /fɔrs,, foʊrs/ (Show IPA), 1889–? a judge of the New York State Supreme Court: his mysterious disappearance on August 6, 1930, has never been solved.
- joseph lister — Joseph, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis [lahym ree-jis] /laɪm ˈri dʒɪs/ (Show IPA), 1827–1912, English surgeon: founder of modern antiseptic surgery.
- joseph ritter — Joseph Elmer, 1891–1967, U.S. cardinal.
- karaoke night — a social occasion when karaoke sessions are held for entertainment, often in a pub or bar
- katharometers — Plural form of katharometer.
- kenneth arrow — Kenneth Joseph, born 1921, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
- kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
- kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
- kinematograph — cinematograph.
- know by heart — have memorized
- lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
- leather goods — products made of animal skin
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
- lipodystrophy — A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- lithographing — Present participle of lithograph.
- lithontriptic — of or relating to destroying bladder or kidney stones
- lithotripters — Plural form of lithotripter.
- lithotriptist — a person skilled in breaking and removing stones from the bladder
- live together — cohabit
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).