13-letter words containing s, h, e, f
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
- schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
- 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-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
- self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
- self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
- self-strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
- self-thinning — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
- semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- sergeant fish — cobia
- seventy-fifth — next after the seventy-fourth; being the ordinal number for 75.
- 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
- 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
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- shiftlessness — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- 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 the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
- single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
- soothfastness — the state of being soothfast
- southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- 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.
- speech defect — a disorder of speech
- speechfulness — the state of being full of speech or expression
- 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.
- stuffed shirt — a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.
- 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 offensive — an attitude or position of aggression
- 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
- the worst off — those people who are in the worst situation
- think less of — to have a lower opinion of
- three-fourths — In American English, people sometimes use three-fourths to mean three-quarters.