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

  • hard shoulder — The hard shoulder is the area at the side of a motorway or other road where you are allowed to stop if your car breaks down.
  • hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
  • harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
  • harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
  • hawk-s--beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • hazardousness — The condition of being hazardous.
  • head linesman — an official who makes rulings regarding play along the line of scrimmage and who oversees the measurement and marking of yardage gained or lost
  • head of state — the person who holds the highest position in a national government: a meeting of heads of state.
  • head of steam — momentum; driving power
  • head register — the high register of the human voice.
  • head shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • head-shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • headmistressy — typical of the duties and behaviour of a headmistress
  • headshrinkers — Plural form of headshrinker.
  • heart disease — any condition of the heart that impairs its functioning.
  • hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
  • hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
  • hereditaments — Plural form of hereditament.
  • hereditarians — Plural form of hereditarian.
  • hermaphrodism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
  • hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
  • hexadactylous — hexadactylic
  • hide and seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
  • hide-and-seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
  • hold in leash — to control; curb; restrain
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • homestead act — a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
  • homestead law — any law exempting homesteads from seizure or sale for debt.
  • homoscedastic — having the same variance.
  • horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
  • horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
  • horseradishes — Plural form of horseradish.
  • hotheadedness — The state or characteristic of being hotheaded; the tendency to be easily infuriated or provoked.
  • house-trained — housebroken.
  • household art — any of the skills necessary to the efficient running of a household, as cooking or keeping a family budget.
  • househusbands — Plural form of househusband.
  • hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
  • hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
  • hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • in good shape — person: fit, healthy
  • in the saddle — a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.
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