13-letter words containing g, r, o, s, h
- riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
- right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
- righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
- rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
- rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
- rough as bags — uncouth
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- rough passage — a stormy sea journey
- rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
- roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- schoolgirlish — like or characteristic of a schoolgirl
- scorchingness — the state or quality of being scorching
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
- 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.
- shipping room — a place in a business concern where goods are packed and shipped.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- shoot through — to leave; depart
- shooting iron — a firearm, especially a pistol or revolver.
- shooting star — meteor (def 1b).
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- shopping trip — visit to the shops
- short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- short-sighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
- 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.
- 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.
- straightforth — straight or directly forward
- string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- surgery hours — the period of time each day when a doctor's surgery or office is open
- sweet sorghum — sorgo.
- symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
- synchronizing — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- synchronology — combined chronology