13-letter words containing r, h, i, n, o
- senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- 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.
- 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 selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
- south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
- southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
- spanish broom — a spiny, often leafless shrub, Genista hispanica, of the legume family, native to southern Europe, having clustered, golden-yellow flowers and hairy pods.
- spheristerion — an area designated for ballplay
- sportsmanship — the character, practice, or skill of a sportsman.
- string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- subinhibitory — not completely inhibiting
- super-heroine — a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines.
- synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
- synchondrosis — the joining of two bones by cartilage
- synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronizing — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
- the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
- thereinbefore — before that
- thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thermogenesis — the production of heat, especially in an animal body by physiological processes.
- thermosetting — pertaining to a type of plastic, as the urea resins, that sets when heated and cannot be remolded.
- thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- thermotensile — of or relating to tensile strength in so far as it is affected by temperature
- think more of — to have a higher opinion of
- think through — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.