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13-letter words containing s, h, e, l, g, a

  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • hellgrammites — Plural form of hellgrammite (Alternative spelling of hellgramites).
  • hematologists — Plural form of hematologist.
  • heteroglossia — (linguistics) the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code.
  • housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • laughableness — The state or quality of being laughable; ludicrousness.
  • leather goods — products made of animal skin
  • lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.
  • maple heights — a city in NE Ohio.
  • might as well — have no reason not to
  • nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
  • orthogonalise — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
  • palos heights — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
  • selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • 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.
  • shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
  • shipping lane — sea lane.
  • 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.
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • single-handed — accomplished or done by one person alone: a single-handed victory; single-handed sailing.
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
  • stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
  • straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
  • thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
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