13-letter words containing s, a, g, h, r
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
- rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
- reprographics — reprography.
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rhyming slang — a form of slang in which a rhyming word or phrase is substituted for the word intended, as Kate and Sidney for steak and kidney or khaki rocks for army socks.
- right as rain — perfectly healthy
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
- rough as bags — uncouth
- rough passage — a stormy sea journey
- sage thrasher — a grayish-brown thrasher, Oreoscoptes montanus, of sagebrush regions of the western U.S.
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- search engine — a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- sergeant fish — cobia
- serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- shaped charge — a warhead having a concave, hollow end and operating on the Munroe effect.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- shark finning — the practice of catching sharks, removing their fins (which are commercially valuable) and throwing the rest of the shark back into the sea (often while it is still alive, but doomed to drown because it cannot swim without its fins)
- sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
- shearing gang — a group of itinerant workers who contract to shear, class, and bale a farmer's wool clip
- shearing shed — a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
- shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
- shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
- shooting star — meteor (def 1b).
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- siberian high — the prevailing high pressure system over Asia in winter.
- sight reading — the act or skill of performing unfamiliar written music, or of translating something written in a foreign language, readily on sight, without previous study
- single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- 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).
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.