13-letter words containing h, i, t, r, a
- 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
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
- share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- 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.
- short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- 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
- snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
- solar chariot — (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
- 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).
- spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
- sportsmanship — the character, practice, or skill of a sportsman.
- staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
- stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
- star sapphire — a sapphire, cut cabochon, exhibiting asterism in the form of a colorless six-rayed star.
- steamer chair — deck chair.
- 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
- straightforth — straight or directly forward
- stratigraphic — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
- striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
- strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
- switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
- synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
- tahrir square — a large square in central Cairo, in Egypt. The name, meaning ‘liberation’, was used informally after the 1919 revolution and then officially after the 1952 revolution. Scene of mass demonstrations in 2011 against the government of president Hosni Mubarak
- taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- tax authority — the official body that administers and collects a country's taxes
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.