13-letter words containing h, e, l, i, o, s
- otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
- overembellish — Make (something) too ornate or complicated.
- palos heights — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
- petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
- phenomenalism — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
- philosophizer — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- phospholipase — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the breaking down of phospholipids.
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
- school choice — an educational policy based on vouchers or scholarships, allowing students their choice of private or public school.
- school dinner — meal served at educational institution
- 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 friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
- self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
- semiochemical — a chemical substance produced by an animal and used in communications, such as a pheromone
- senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
- shed light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- shirley poppy — a cultivated strain of the corn poppy, having variously colored single or double flowers.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
- sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
- sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
- silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
- sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
- smooth collie — a breed of short-haired collie with a smooth, thick coat.
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
- sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
- stiletto heel — spike heel.