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13-letter words containing h, e, n, r, i, s

  • runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
  • 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.
  • rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
  • schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
  • schizophrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
  • scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
  • school dinner — meal served at educational institution
  • 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.
  • scorchingness — the state or quality of being scorching
  • screen rights — the rights to make a film version of a book
  • scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
  • search engine — a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • shakespearian — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • 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.
  • sheet erosion — Geology. erosion by sheets of running water, rather than by streams.
  • shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
  • 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 mother — a mother 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
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
  • spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
  • spanish river — a river in S Ontario, Canada, flowing S into the North Channel of Lake Huron. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  • 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.
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