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13-letter words containing d, i, s, h, e, l

  • sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
  • 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
  • south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
  • speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
  • spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • swindle sheet — an expense account.
  • swivel-hipped — characterized by an exaggeratedly swinging or extremely free motion of the hips.
  • 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.
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • the headlines — the main points of a television or radio news broadcast, read out before the full broadcast and summarized at the end
  • the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
  • the palisades — line of steep cliffs in NE N.J. & SE N.Y. on the west shore of the Hudson: c. 15 mi (24 km) long
  • thick-skulled — stupid; dull.
  • unembellished — to beautify by or as if by ornamentation; ornament; adorn.
  • unestablished — not established.
  • unreplenished — not replenished or refilled
  • well-finished — ended or completed.
  • well-polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
  • whistle dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
  • whistle-dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
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