13-letter words containing s, h, a, l, o
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- polyadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three or more sets or bundles.
- polyarthritis — arthritis occurring in more than one joint.
- polythalamous — having multiple chambers
- postholocaust — following a holocaust
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- psammophilous — living or growing in sand
- psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
- psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyst — a person trained to practice psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- psychological — of or relating to psychology.
- psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- rochelle salt — a white crystalline double salt, sodium potassium tartrate, used in Seidlitz powder. Formula: KNaC4H4O6.4H2O
- saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- saxony-anhalt — a state in central Germany. 9515 sq. mi. (24,644 sq. km). Capital: Magdeburg.
- scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scallop shell — the shell of a scallop
- scaphocephaly — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
- scholasticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) the system of theological and philosophical teaching predominant in the Middle Ages, based chiefly upon the authority of the church fathers and of Aristotle and his commentators.
- school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- school of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.
- school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
- schoolmarmish — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
- sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- semiochemical — a chemical substance produced by an animal and used in communications, such as a pheromone
- shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
- shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
- shear modulus — The shear modulus of a material is how stiff or rigid it is. It is equal to the shear stress divided by the shear strain.
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- 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.
- shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
- shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.