13-letter words containing o, f, s, h
- logical shift — (programming) (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit in a word one or more bit positions in the given direction. A left shift moves the bits to more significant positions (like multiplying by two), a right shift moves them to less significant positions (like dividing by two). The comparison with multiplication and division breaks down in certain circumstances - a logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative). Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a bit string or a sequence of bit fields, whereas arithmetic shift is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a register, or possibly in memory.
- lord of hosts — Jehovah; God.
- lose sight of — no longer see
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- mirror finish — a smooth highly polished surface produced on metal by mechanical or electrolytic polishing or lapping
- new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
- ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
- of all others — above all others
- off the books — of or relating to a book or books: the book department; a book salesman.
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- off the shelf — readily available from merchandise in stock.
- off-the-books — not recorded in account books or not reported as taxable income.
- off-the-shelf — readily available from merchandise in stock.
- offhandedness — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- offshore dock — a floating dock moored to pilings, dolphins, etc., used for cleaning and repairing medium-sized vessels.
- old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
- on-off switch — electrical or electronic device: control knob
- photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
- piece of shit — despicable person
- piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
- professorship — the office or post of a professor.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- sawtooth roof — a roof composed of a series of small parallel roofs of triangular cross section, usually asymmetrical with the shorter slope glazed.
- 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 of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.
- scorpion fish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
- scottish fold — a breed of medium-sized short-haired cat with folded ears
- self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
- self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- 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
- ship of state — a nation or its affairs likened to a ship under sail.
- short-staffed — A company or place that is short-staffed does not have enough people working there.
- show of hands — an indication of approval, disapproval, volunteering, etc., on the part of a group of persons, usually made by each assenting person raising his or her hand.
- show signs of — indicate possibility of
- show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
- shy away from — If you shy away from doing something, you avoid doing it, often because you are afraid or not confident enough.
- slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.