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

  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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 of hands — an indication of approval, disapproval, volunteering, etc., on the part of a group of persons, usually made by each assenting person raising his or her hand.
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • shy away from — If you shy away from doing something, you avoid doing it, often because you are afraid or not confident enough.
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
  • soothfastness — the state of being soothfast
  • soup-and-fish — a man's formal evening clothes.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • straightforth — straight or directly forward
  • 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
  • to fall short — If someone or something is or stops short of a place, they have not quite reached it. If they are or fall short of an amount, they have not quite achieved it.
  • trash farming — cultivation by leaving stubble, etc, on the surface of the soil to serve as a mulch
  • tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
  • twin camshaft — A twin camshaft is an arrangement of two parallel camshafts for each set of cylinders in an engine. Usually one operates the intake valve and the other the exhaust valve.
  • unfashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • unfashionably — in an unfashionable manner
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
  • weatherproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weatherproof.
  • west hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
  • whitefish bay — a city in SE Wisconsin, N of Milwaukee.
  • wichita falls — a city in N Texas.
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