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13-letter words containing h, a, l, e, d

  • reading light — any small electric light that you use for reading. You can usually move it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading. It can be attached to a wall or shelf in the home, or be above your head inside an aircraft or other vehicle.
  • reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • rehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
  • saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scandal sheet — a newspaper or magazine that emphasizes scandal or gossip.
  • seal the deal — make an agreement official
  • self-adhesive — having a side or surface coated with an adhesive substance to permit sticking without glue, paste, or the like: a self-adhesive label; self-adhesive ceramic tiles.
  • shear modulus — The shear modulus of a material is how stiff or rigid it is. It is equal to the shear stress divided by the shear strain.
  • shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
  • shield bearer — an attendant who carries the shield or arms of a warrior.
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
  • shoulder arms — to bring the rifle vertically close to the right side with the muzzle uppermost and held at the trigger guard
  • show and tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • show-and-tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • 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
  • speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
  • spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
  • squash ladder — a list showing the relative order of merit of a set of squash players determined by the winning player in each match taking the higher of the two players' positions
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • 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.
  • table--d-hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
  • tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
  • team handball — a game, similar to soccer, played between two teams of seven players who catch, dribble, throw, or hit the ball with the hands.
  • tetartohedral — (of a crystal) having one fourth the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • 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 iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
  • the last word — final retort
  • 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
  • the real deal — a person or thing seen as being authentic and not inferior in any way
  • the small ads — the small ads in a newspaper are short advertisements in which you can advertise something such as an object for sale or a room to let
  • thiabendazole — a drug used as an antifungal treatment and as an anthelmintic
  • thread blight — a fungal disease of woody plants, characterized by thick, threadlike strands of mycelium on the undersides of the leaves and branches.
  • three old cat — three-a-cat.
  • thundersquall — a combined squall and thunderstorm.
  • tintagel head — a cape in SW England, on the W coast of Cornwall.
  • toothed whale — any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, having conical teeth in one or both jaws and feeding on fish, squid, etc.
  • tread lightly — to proceed with delicacy or tact
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