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

  • herd instinct — the impulse or tendency toward clustering or acting in a group, especially the presumed instinct toward or need for gregariousness and conformity.
  • hereditaments — Plural form of hereditament.
  • hereditarians — Plural form of hereditarian.
  • herefordshire — a former county in W England, now part of Hereford and Worscester.
  • 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.
  • hertfordshire — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
  • hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
  • 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.
  • high-spending — spending more than is necessary or appropriate
  • high-spirited — characterized by energetic enthusiasm, elation, vivacity, etc.
  • hit the skids — get into difficulties
  • hold in leash — to control; curb; restrain
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • 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.
  • house-trained — housebroken.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
  • 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.
  • hybrid system — a way of working, organizing, or doing something that is composed of elements of two separate systems
  • hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • hydromedusoid — a jellyfish or something resembling a jellyfish that lives in water
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
  • hyperhidrosis — abnormally excessive sweating.
  • hyperlordosis — Particularly severe lordosis.
  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
  • in good shape — person: fit, healthy
  • in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
  • in the saddle — a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.
  • indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
  • isodrosotherm — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having an equal dew point.
  • judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
  • kidney-shaped — having the general shape of a long oval indented at one side; reniform: a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
  • kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • let sth slide — If you let something slide, you allow it to get into a worse state or condition by not attending to it.
  • lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
  • list enhanced — (operating system, tool)   An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
  • load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
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