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

  • outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • pseudesthesia — phantom limb pain.
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
  • righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
  • rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
  • rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
  • runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
  • shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • 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.
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • 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).
  • south ossetia — a region in N Georgia, on the S side of the Caucasus Range. 1506 sq. mi. (3900 sq. km).
  • south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
  • 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.
  • station house — a police station or fire station.
  • step out with — to be a boyfriend or girlfriend of (someone), esp publicly
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
  • stuffed shirt — a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.
  • subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
  • subepithelial — any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions.
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
  • superthriller — a highly sensational film or book
  • 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
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
  • the big issue — a weekly magazine, founded to highlight the plight of the homeless, and sold by homeless people
  • the conscious — that part of one's mental activity of which one is fully aware at any given time
  • the jig is up — that ends it; all chances for success are gone
  • the spiritual — the realm of spirits
  • the squitters — diarrhoea
  • the superrich — exceptionally wealthy people, considered collectively
  • theodosius ii — a.d. 401–450, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 408–450.
  • thick-skulled — stupid; dull.
  • three unities — the state of being one; oneness.
  • thunderstrike — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
  • treasurership — a person in charge of treasure or a treasury.
  • trichopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Trichoptera, comprising the caddisflies.
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