13-letter words containing h, o, d, s
- short-staffed — A company or place that is short-staffed does not have enough people working there.
- short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
- shoulder arms — to bring the rifle vertically close to the right side with the muzzle uppermost and held at the trigger guard
- shoulder knot — a knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder, as by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries, by servants in livery, or by women or children.
- shoulder loop — a flap on each shoulder of a service uniform on which metallic insignia of rank are worn by commissioned and warrant officers in the Army, Air Force, and Marines.
- shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
- 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 of hands — an indication of approval, disapproval, volunteering, etc., on the part of a group of persons, usually made by each assenting person raising his or her hand.
- 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.
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
- shut the door — put up a barrier
- 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
- slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
- small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
- sophisticated — sophisticated.
- soup-and-fish — a man's formal evening clothes.
- south dakotan — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 77,047 sq. mi. (199,550 sq. km). Capital: Pierre. Abbreviation: SD (for use with zip code), S. Dak.
- south dum dum — a city in SE West Bengal state, in E India.
- south holland — a province in the SW Netherlands. 1086 sq. mi. (2810 sq. km). Capital: The Hague.
- south modesto — a town in central California.
- south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
- south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
- southeastward — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
- southern toad — a common toad, Bufo terrestris, of the southeastern U.S., having prominent knoblike crests on its head.
- southwestward — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
- sphenoid bone — the large butterfly-shaped compound bone at the base of the skull, containing a protective depression for the pituitary gland
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- spider orchid — any of several European orchids of the genus Ophrys, esp O. sphegodes, having a flower with yellow, green, or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip
- spiny dogfish — any of several dogfish sharks of the genus Squalus, having a spine in front of each of the two dorsal fins, especially S. acanthias, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters.
- spotted hyena — a long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal native to Africa and S Asia (Crocuta crocuta)
- staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
- standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
- stone-hearted — stony-hearted.
- stony-hearted — hardhearted.
- stout-hearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
- strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
- subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
- sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
- sweet-toothed — having a strong liking for sweet foods
- synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
- synchondrosis — the joining of two bones by cartilage
- 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.
- synodic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
- the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s