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13-letter words containing t, h, o, r

  • stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
  • sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
  • stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
  • stone's throw — a short distance: The railroad station is only a stone's throw from our house.
  • stone-hearted — stony-hearted.
  • stony-hearted — hardhearted.
  • stout-hearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
  • straightforth — straight or directly forward
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • street hockey — road hockey.
  • string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
  • subinhibitory — not completely inhibiting
  • sweet sorghum — sorgo.
  • synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
  • synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • take the road — to begin a journey or tour
  • take to heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • tapestry moth — carpet moth.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • tauromorphous — having the form of a bull
  • tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
  • tautochronous — having the character of a tautochrone
  • tax authority — the official body that administers and collects a country's taxes
  • temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • tetartohedral — (of a crystal) having one fourth the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • thalamifloral — relating to the Thalamiflorae
  • thalassocracy — dominion over the seas, as in exploration, trade, or colonization.
  • thanatography — an account or story of a person's death experience
  • thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
  • thaumatolatry — the worship of or excessive admiration for marvels and miracles
  • the better of — having recovered from
  • the boat race — a rowing event held annually in the spring, in which an eight representing Oxford University rows against one representing Cambridge University on the Thames between Putney and Mortlake
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the comforter — the Holy Spirit: John 14:26
  • the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
  • the far north — the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of the world
  • the father of — a very large, severe, etc, example of a specified kind
  • the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • 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
  • the last word — final retort
  • the long term — the time some years ahead, (as opposed to the immediate future)
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