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

  • pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • resident head — someone who is charge of running and supervising a student residence
  • rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
  • right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
  • righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
  • runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
  • saint matthew — a tax collector of Capernaum called by Christ to be one of the 12 apostles (Matthew 9:9–13; 10:3). Feast day: Sept 21 or Nov 16
  • saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
  • 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
  • schizogenetic — reproducing or formed by fission.
  • screen rights — the rights to make a film version of a book
  • section eight — a military discharge for physical or mental unfitness as determined by an Army Regulation in effect from 1922 to 1944.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
  • self-thinning — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
  • semisynthetic — derived synthetically from one or more substances of natural origin.
  • sensible heat — Sensible heat is heat which is exchanged in an energy generation system, and which only affects the temperature of one or more substances.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • seventy-eight — a cardinal number, 70 plus 8.
  • seventy-fifth — next after the seventy-fourth; being the ordinal number for 75.
  • seventy-ninth — next after the seventy-eighth; being the ordinal number for 79.
  • seventy-sixth — next after the seventy-fifth; being the ordinal number for 76.
  • seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • shed light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • sheep station — a large sheep farm
  • sheet erosion — Geology. erosion by sheets of running water, rather than by streams.
  • shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
  • shiftlessness — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • sixty-seventh — next after the sixty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 67.
  • slàinte mhath — a drinking toast; cheers
  • snap the whip — crack the whip (def 2).
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • south vietnam — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
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