13-letter words containing h, i, g, r, a
- rhyming slang — a form of slang in which a rhyming word or phrase is substituted for the word intended, as Kate and Sidney for steak and kidney or khaki rocks for army socks.
- rhythm guitar — a guitar used to provide rhythm, particularly during a musical ensemble
- right as rain — perfectly healthy
- right bracket — (character) "]". ASCII character 93. Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket; unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back. Paired with left bracket.
- right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
- right-brained — having the right brain dominant, therefore being more adept at spatial and nonverbal concepts and being more creative and emotional than logical and analytical.
- rocking chair — a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- 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.
- sergeant fish — cobia
- serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- 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
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- shark finning — the practice of catching sharks, removing their fins (which are commercially valuable) and throwing the rest of the shark back into the sea (often while it is still alive, but doomed to drown because it cannot swim without its fins)
- sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
- shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
- 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.
- shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
- 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.
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- 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 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
- stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
- stinging hair — sting (def 18).
- straight away — immediately
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
- straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
- straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
- straighten up — stand straighter