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

  • downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
  • drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
  • earth science — any of various sciences, as geography, geology, or meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects.
  • earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
  • east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
  • eastern ghats — a mountain range in S India, parallel to the Bay of Bengal: united with the Western Ghats by the Nilgiri Hills; forms the E margin of the Deccan plateau
  • eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
  • eastern shore — the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, including parts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
  • electrophones — Plural form of electrophone.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
  • enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
  • enchantresses — Plural form of enchantress.
  • encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
  • enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
  • entrenchments — Plural form of entrenchment.
  • ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
  • ethnographers — Plural form of ethnographer.
  • ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
  • ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
  • exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
  • exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
  • extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.
  • fast ethernet — (networking)   A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. The relevant standards are 100BaseT, 100BaseFX and 100BaseVG.
  • featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
  • festschriften — Plural form of festschrift.
  • fill her tins — to complete a home baking of cakes, biscuits, etc
  • first-nighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
  • french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • full-strength — If a team or army is at full strength, all the members that it needs or usually has are present.
  • gangster chic — a cinematic or literary genre which seeks to glamorize the criminal underworld
  • garnisheement — the process of arresting a debtor's money or property from the hands of a third party
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
  • go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
  • grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
  • gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • guttersnipish — Resembling or characteristic of a guttersnipe.
  • harness hitch — a hitch forming a loop around a rope, especially one formed at the end of a bowline.
  • hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
  • harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
  • harvester ant — any of several red or black ants, especially of the genus Pogonomyrmex, of the southwestern U.S., that feed on and store the seeds of grasses.
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