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13-letter words containing s, a, f, e, h

  • match fitness — the condition of being match-fit
  • merchant fees — Merchant fees are money charged by a merchant service to a vendor for processing credit card transactions.
  • methylsulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
  • 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 rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
  • offhandedness — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
  • old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
  • paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
  • physical file — (file system)   A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • rose of china — China rose (def 2).
  • safety helmet — protective hard hat
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
  • self-adhesive — having a side or surface coated with an adhesive substance to permit sticking without glue, paste, or the like: a self-adhesive label; self-adhesive ceramic tiles.
  • self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • shaft feather — one of the two fletchings on an arrow
  • shamefastness — the state or quality of being modest, shy, or bashful
  • shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
  • sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • 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 the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • soothfastness — the state of being soothfast
  • specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.
  • 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.
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
  • sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
  • the fast lane — If you say that someone lives their life in the fast lane, you mean that they live in a way which seems full of activity and excitement but which often involves a lot of pressure.
  • the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
  • the pants off — If someone bores, charms, or scares the pants off you, for example, they bore, charm, or scare you a lot.
  • the rastafari — Rastafarians collectively
  • unfashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
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