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13-letter words containing g, r, a, s, h, e

  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • shaped charge — a warhead having a concave, hollow end and operating on the Munroe effect.
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
  • shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
  • shearing gang — a group of itinerant workers who contract to shear, class, and bale a farmer's wool clip
  • shearing shed — a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool
  • sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
  • sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
  • shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
  • siberian high — the prevailing high pressure system over Asia in winter.
  • 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
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • 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.
  • sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
  • staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
  • steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
  • stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
  • straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
  • straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
  • training shoe — Training shoes are the same as trainers.
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • wasatch range — a mountain range in N Utah and SE Idaho. Highest peak, Mt. Timpanogos, 12,008 feet (3660 meters).
  • western ghats — a mountain range in W peninsular India, parallel to the Malabar coast of the Arabian Sea. Highest peak: Anai Mudi, 2695 m (8841 ft)
  • whigmaleeries — a whim; notion.
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