13-letter words containing n, i, s, h
- scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
- scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
- search engine — a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
- section eight — a military discharge for physical or mental unfitness as determined by an Army Regulation in effect from 1922 to 1944.
- self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
- 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.
- semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- semisynthetic — derived synthetically from one or more substances of natural origin.
- seneschalship — the office or position of a seneschal
- senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
- 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.
- shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
- shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
- shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
- shakespearian — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
- shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- shark finning — the practice of catching sharks, removing their fins (which are commercially valuable) and throwing the rest of the shark back into the sea (often while it is still alive, but doomed to drown because it cannot swim without its fins)
- shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
- shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
- shearing gang — a group of itinerant workers who contract to shear, class, and bale a farmer's wool clip
- shearing shed — a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool
- shed light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- sheep station — a large sheep farm
- sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
- 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.
- shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
- shiftlessness — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
- shill bidding — (on an online auction) the illegal practice of a seller or a seller’s acquaintances placing bids on his or her goods in order to drive up the price
- shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- shipping lane — sea lane.