11-letter words containing t, r, i, m, e, h
- photometric — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
- physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
- pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
- rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- right money — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- river-mouth — an estuary
- roche limit — the minimum distance below which a moon orbiting a celestial body would be disrupted by tidal forces or below which a moon would not have formed.
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- short-timer — a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
- sight rhyme — agreement in spelling, but not in sound, of the ends of words or of lines of verse, as in have, grave.
- silversmith — a person whose occupation is making and repairing articles of silver.
- smithereens — If something is smashed or blown to smithereens, it breaks into very small pieces.
- somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
- tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tetratheism — the belief that the Christian God is four persons
- thatcherism — the conservative policies, political philosophy, and leadership style of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, characterized especially by monetarism, privatization, and labor union reform.
- the interim — the intervening time; the meantime (esp in the phrase in the interim)
- the kremlin — the citadel of Moscow, in which some government offices of the Soviet Union were located: it now contains some offices of the Russian government
- the midrash — these commentaries and notes collectively
- the moer in — furious; enraged
- the permian — the Permian period or rock system
- theatricism — theatricalism.
- theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
- theomorphic — having the form or likeness of God or a deity.
- thermically — in a thermic manner
- thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
- thermobaric — (of an explosive device or explosion) detonated by means of an explosive substance reacting spontaneously with air
- thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
- thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
- thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
- thermolysis — Physiology. the dispersion of heat from the body.
- thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
- thermotaxis — Biology. movement of an organism toward or away from a source of heat.
- thirdstream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
- thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- tilt hammer — a drop hammer used in forging, consisting of a heavy head at one end of a pivoted lever.
- trumpetfish — any of several fishes of the family Aulostomidae, having a long, tubular snout, as the slender, brown-flecked Aulostomus maculatus, inhabiting waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having the habit of orienting vertically in the water and capturing its prey from that position.
- weight room — weight-training gym
- whateverism — (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers:
- white bream — a similar cyprinid, Blicca bjoerkna
- white meter — an electricity meter used to record the consumption of off-peak electricity
- winter moth — a brown geometrid moth, Operophtera brumata, of which the male is often seen against lighted windows in winter, the female being wingless
- xerophytism — (botany) The adaptation of plants to habitats where water is scarce.