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

  • danish pastry — Danish pastries are cakes made from sweet pastry. They are often filled with things such as apple or almond paste.
  • demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
  • diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
  • disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
  • disinthralled — freed from thraldom
  • draftsmanship — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, as of machines, structures, etc.
  • draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ethnographers — Plural form of ethnographer.
  • ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
  • exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
  • 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.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • grandad shirt — a long-sleeved collarless shirt
  • grantsmanship — skill in securing grants, as for research, from federal agencies, foundations, or the like.
  • 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.
  • hainan strait — a strait between Hainan island and Leizhou peninsula. 50 miles (81 km) long; 15 miles (24 km) wide.
  • hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
  • hampton roads — a channel in SE Virginia between the mouth of the James River and Chesapeake Bay: battle between the Monitor and the Virginia 1862.
  • hand controls — a set of controls in some cars, operated by hand, that have the same function as the accelerator, brake, and clutch pedals
  • handcraftsman — A handicraftsman.
  • hard and fast — strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated: hard-and-fast rules.
  • hard standing — a hard-surfaced area on which heavy vehicles or airplanes can be parked.
  • hard-and-fast — strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated: hard-and-fast rules.
  • harmonisation — (British spelling) alternative spelling of harmonization.
  • 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.
  • haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
  • 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.
  • heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
  • heartfeltness — The state or quality of being heartfelt.
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