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13-letter words containing o, h, a, r, e

  • short-staffed — A company or place that is short-staffed does not have enough people working there.
  • short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
  • shoulder arms — to bring the rifle vertically close to the right side with the muzzle uppermost and held at the trigger guard
  • shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
  • shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
  • sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
  • slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
  • snowshoe hare — a large-footed North American hare, Lepus americanus, that is white in winter and dark brown in summer.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • 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-eastern — South-eastern means in or from the south-east of a region or country.
  • southeasterly — coming from the south east
  • southeastward — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
  • southern alps — a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island: the highest range in Australasia. Highest peak: Mount Cook (also known as Aoraki or Aorangi), 3754 m (12 316 ft)
  • southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • southern toad — a common toad, Bufo terrestris, of the southeastern U.S., having prominent knoblike crests on its head.
  • southwestward — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
  • spear-thrower — a flexible device for launching a spear, usually a short cord wound around the spear so that when thrown the weapon will rotate in the air.
  • spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • speleotherapy — a form of treatment for asthma sufferers that takes place in clinics in disused mines, in which the air is free of pollen, dust mites, and the other irritants that provoke an allergic reaction; used to reduce the risk of heart disease
  • spermatophore — a capsule surrounding a mass of spermatozoa, produced by the male of various animal species and transferred to the female.
  • spermatophyte — any of the Spermatophyta, a primary division or group of plants comprising those that bear seeds.
  • spermatorrhea — abnormally frequent and involuntary nonorgasmic emission of semen.
  • staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
  • staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
  • steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
  • stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
  • stone-hearted — stony-hearted.
  • stony-hearted — hardhearted.
  • stout-hearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • sulphonylurea — an antidiabetic drug used in treating type II diabetes, which acts by stimulating the production of insulin in the pancreas
  • take the road — to begin a journey or tour
  • take to heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • tapestry moth — carpet moth.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • tetartohedral — (of a crystal) having one fourth the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the boat race — a rowing event held annually in the spring, in which an eight representing Oxford University rows against one representing Cambridge University on the Thames between Putney and Mortlake
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
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