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

  • runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
  • share account — a savings account in a credit union.
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • shoot the sun — to measure the altitude of the sun in order to determine latitude
  • shoulder knot — a knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder, as by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries, by servants in livery, or by women or children.
  • shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
  • south vietnam — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
  • south-eastern — South-eastern means in or from the south-east of a region or country.
  • south-western — South-western means in or from the south-west of a region or country.
  • southern alps — a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island: the highest range in Australasia. Highest peak: Mount Cook (also known as Aoraki or Aorangi), 3754 m (12 316 ft)
  • southern blot — a procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific DNA sequence or gene in a mixed extract, as in testing for a mutation or a virus: DNA strands from the person or organism under study are cut with restriction enzymes, separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to special filter paper, and hybridized with a labeled DNA probe.
  • southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • southern toad — a common toad, Bufo terrestris, of the southeastern U.S., having prominent knoblike crests on its head.
  • station house — a police station or fire station.
  • stenophyllous — having narrow leaves.
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
  • sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superstrength — great strength
  • that's enough — You say 'that's enough' to tell someone, especially a child, to stop behaving in a silly, noisy, or unpleasant way.
  • the conscious — that part of one's mental activity of which one is fully aware at any given time
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • three unities — the state of being one; oneness.
  • through stone — perpend1 .
  • thunder sheet — a large sheet of metal that can be shaken to produce a noise resembling thunder as a sound effect for a theatrical production
  • thundershower — a shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.
  • thundersquall — a combined squall and thunderstorm.
  • thunderstrike — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
  • thunderstroke — a stroke of lightning accompanied by thunder.
  • thunderstruck — overcome with consternation; confounded; astounded: He was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion.
  • treasure hunt — a game in which each person or team attempts to be first in finding something that has been hidden, using written directions or clues.
  • trinity house — an association that provides lighthouses, buoys, etc, around the British coast
  • truthlessness — the quality or character of being truthless
  • unchastisable — not deserving to be chastised; beyond reproach
  • under hatches — below decks
  • under the sod — dead and buried
  • under the sun — (often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
  • understrength — having insufficient organizational strength; lacking in personnel: an understrength army.
  • unestablished — not established.
  • unethicalness — lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.
  • unhurtfulness — the state of being unhurtful
  • unscratchable — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
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