13-letter words containing l, h, e, r
- rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
- rumbledethump — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
- scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- school dinner — meal served at educational institution
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- school record — the information that is kept about a child at school, including biographical information and exam results
- school report — written assessment of school pupil
- schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
- schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
- schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
- self-strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
- senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
- serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
- 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
- share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
- shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
- shear modulus — The shear modulus of a material is how stiff or rigid it is. It is equal to the shear stress divided by the shear strain.
- shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
- shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
- shield bearer — an attendant who carries the shield or arms of a warrior.
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- shirley poppy — a cultivated strain of the corn poppy, having variously colored single or double flowers.
- shirt-sleeves — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- short-sleeved — having short sleeves
- 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.
- sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
- silver halide — a compound in which silver is combined with a halogen, as silver chloride, bromide, or iodide.
- silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
- silver-haired — having silver coloured hair
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- 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
- sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc