13-letter words containing n, o, r, h
- rolling hitch — a hitch on a spar or the like, composed of two round turns and a half hitch so disposed as to jam when a stress is applied parallel to the object on which the hitch is made.
- roman holiday — a public spectacle or controversy marked by barbarism, vindictiveness, or scandal.
- rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- rosh hashanah — a Jewish high holy day that marks the beginning of the Jewish New Year, celebrated on the first and second days of Tishri by Orthodox and Conservative Jews and only on the first day by Reform Jews.
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- roughing mill — a rolling mill for converting steel ingots into blooms, billets, or slabs.
- round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
- round-cheeked — having plump cheeks
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- 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.
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
- schizophrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- school dinner — meal served at educational institution
- 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.
- scoinson arch — sconcheon arch.
- scorchingness — the state or quality of being scorching
- scorpion fish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
- seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- share account — a savings account in a credit union.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
- sheet erosion — Geology. erosion by sheets of running water, rather than by streams.
- shipping room — a place in a business concern where goods are packed and shipped.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- shooting iron — a firearm, especially a pistol or revolver.
- shooting star — meteor (def 1b).
- shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- shopping trip — visit to the shops
- short account — the account of a short seller.
- short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- short-commons — a scanty allowance of food.
- 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.
- shower screen — a shower panel
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- snowshoe hare — a large-footed North American hare, Lepus americanus, that is white in winter and dark brown in summer.