13-letter words containing g, u, s, h
- runner's high — a state of euphoria experienced during prolonged running or other forms of aerobic, sustained exercise, attributed to an increase of endorphins in the blood.
- sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
- 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.
- school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
- 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
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
- shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
- shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
- shoot through — to leave; depart
- shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
- shunt winding — the winding of an electric motor or generator in such a way that the field and armature circuits are connected in parallel
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
- souphanouvong — Prince, 1909–1995, Laotian political leader: president 1975–86 (half brother of Prince Souvanna Phouma).
- 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).
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- sphagnum moss — Botany
- sprung rhythm — a poetic rhythm characterized by the use of strongly accented syllables, often in juxtaposition, accompanied by an indefinite number of unaccented syllables in each foot, of which the accented syllable is the essential component.
- straighten up — stand straighter
- styling brush — a hairbrush used to style or neaten hair
- sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- 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.
- superstrength — great strength
- surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
- surgery hours — the period of time each day when a doctor's surgery or office is open
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- sweet sorghum — sorgo.
- that's enough — You say 'that's enough' to tell someone, especially a child, to stop behaving in a silly, noisy, or unpleasant way.
- thaumaturgist — a worker of wonders or miracles; magician.
- the big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- the big issue — a weekly magazine, founded to highlight the plight of the homeless, and sold by homeless people
- the jig is up — that ends it; all chances for success are gone
- thorough bass — figured bass.
- through stone — perpend1 .
- thumb-sucking — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- toothbrushing — the act or method of cleaning the teeth with a toothbrush.
- toxicophagous — poison-eating
- trout fishing — angling to catch trout
- tsutsugamushi — any of various rickettsial disease, including scrub typhus
- ultrarightist — ultraright.
- understrength — having insufficient organizational strength; lacking in personnel: an understrength army.
- undiminishing — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- unshrinkingly — in an unshrinking manner
- unsightliness — distasteful or unpleasant to look at: an unsightly wound; unsightly disorder.