13-letter words containing s, h, e, f
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
- isle of youth — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
- life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
- lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
- line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- lose sight of — no longer see
- make mischief — cause trouble
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- match fitness — the condition of being match-fit
- merchant fees — Merchant fees are money charged by a merchant service to a vendor for processing credit card transactions.
- methylsulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
- ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
- of all others — above all others
- off the books — of or relating to a book or books: the book department; a book salesman.
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- off the shelf — readily available from merchandise in stock.
- off-the-books — not recorded in account books or not reported as taxable income.
- off-the-shelf — readily available from merchandise in stock.
- offhandedness — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- offshore dock — a floating dock moored to pilings, dolphins, etc., used for cleaning and repairing medium-sized vessels.
- old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
- paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
- photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
- physical file — (file system) A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
- piece of shit — despicable person
- piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- professorship — the office or post of a professor.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- river fishing — the sport of fishing in rivers
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- safety helmet — protective hard hat
- scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
- scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
- schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.