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13-letter words containing a, s, h, d

  • shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
  • sick headache — migraine.
  • sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
  • sight reading — the act or skill of performing unfamiliar written music, or of translating something written in a foreign language, readily on sight, without previous study
  • silver halide — a compound in which silver is combined with a halogen, as silver chloride, bromide, or iodide.
  • silver-haired — having silver coloured hair
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • single-handed — accomplished or done by one person alone: a single-handed victory; single-handed sailing.
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
  • small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • sophisticated — sophisticated.
  • soup-and-fish — a man's formal evening clothes.
  • south dakotan — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 77,047 sq. mi. (199,550 sq. km). Capital: Pierre. Abbreviation: SD (for use with zip code), S. Dak.
  • south holland — a province in the SW Netherlands. 1086 sq. mi. (2810 sq. km). Capital: The Hague.
  • southeastward — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
  • southern toad — a common toad, Bufo terrestris, of the southeastern U.S., having prominent knoblike crests on its head.
  • southwestward — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
  • spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
  • spatterdashes — long leather leggings worn in the 18th century, as to protect from mud when riding
  • speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
  • speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
  • spotted hyena — a long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal native to Africa and S Asia (Crocuta crocuta)
  • squash ladder — a list showing the relative order of merit of a set of squash players determined by the winning player in each match taking the higher of the two players' positions
  • staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
  • stand up with — to act as a wedding attendant to
  • standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
  • steady-handed — having steady hands; having self-control; calm.
  • stone-hearted — stony-hearted.
  • stony-hearted — hardhearted.
  • stout-hearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
  • straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • such and such — definite or particular, but not named or specified: They turned out to be such and such kind of people.
  • sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
  • surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
  • synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • take sth hard — If you take something hard, you are very upset or depressed by it.
  • tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
  • the adversary — Satan
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the east side — the east side of Manhattan Island in New York City
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • the headlines — the main points of a television or radio news broadcast, read out before the full broadcast and summarized at the end
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