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13-letter words containing s, e, g, h

  • stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
  • stirlingshire — Also called Stirlingshire [stur-ling-sheer, -sher] /ˈstɜr lɪŋˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in central Scotland.
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
  • straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
  • straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • strengthening — to make stronger; give strength to.
  • string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superstrength — great strength
  • surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
  • surgery hours — the period of time each day when a doctor's surgery or office is open
  • sweet sorghum — sorgo.
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
  • switch engine — a locomotive for switching rolling stock in a yard.
  • synthesis gas — any of several gaseous mixtures consisting essentially of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, used in the synthesis of chemical compounds, as ammonia and alcohols.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • testing bench — a piece of equipment for testing if a machine or device is working properly
  • that's enough — You say 'that's enough' to tell someone, especially a child, to stop behaving in a silly, noisy, or unpleasant way.
  • the big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
  • the big issue — a weekly magazine, founded to highlight the plight of the homeless, and sold by homeless people
  • the big smoke — a large city, esp London
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
  • the jig is up — that ends it; all chances for success are gone
  • the night sky — the sky as it appears at night time
  • the spotlight — the focus of attention
  • 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.
  • thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
  • thin register — head register.
  • thrillingness — the state or quality of being thrilling or exciting
  • through stone — perpend1 .
  • tilting chest — a medieval chest decorated with a representation of a tournament.
  • to go apeshit — to become crazy, enraged, or out of control
  • toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
  • training shoe — Training shoes are the same as trainers.
  • understrength — having insufficient organizational strength; lacking in personnel: an understrength army.
  • unsightliness — distasteful or unpleasant to look at: an unsightly wound; unsightly disorder.
  • uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
  • visible light — the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans perceive
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • wappenshawing — (formerly) the reviewing of the men under arms in a Scottish lordship or district
  • wasatch range — a mountain range in N Utah and SE Idaho. Highest peak, Mt. Timpanogos, 12,008 feet (3660 meters).
  • wedding chest — an ornamented chest for a trousseau.
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