13-letter words containing s, h, e, n, i
- niedersachsen — German name of Lower Saxony.
- night jasmine — Also called hursinghar, sad tree, tree of sadness. a jasminelike, Indian shrub or small tree, Nyctanthes arbor-tristis, of the verbena family, having fragrant, white and orange flowers that bloom at night.
- night shelter — an organization that provides dormitory-style accommodation for the homeless at night, or the accommodation so provided
- night terrors — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- night-terrors — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
- nitrous ether — ethyl nitrite.
- noise shaping — (communications) Spectral noise transformation in a quantisation processes. Noise is "colourised" in the time domain an/or frequency domain by adding parts of the previous sample. The SNR bandwidth and SNR time integral stay the same, so some noise decreases, some increases, but overall noise always increases. An example of noise shaping in the frequency domain is quantisation of samples on a Compact Disc to reduce noise below -98 dB. The are different algorithms with slightly different filters, e.g. Super Bitmapping, 4D Recording. A time domain example is MPEG-4 AAC TNS, which is a method to enhance quality by temporal forming of the noise in a transform block.
- non-aesthetic — relating to the philosophy of aesthetics; concerned with notions such as the beautiful and the ugly.
- non-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- nonce-bashing — violent attacks against rapists, child molesters, or sexual offenders, esp inside a prison
- nonexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- nonhysterical — not hysterical or funny
- nonmembership — the fact or condition of being a nonmember
- nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- nonpunishable — Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
- nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
- north ossetia — an autonomous republic in S European Russia, in the N Caucasus. 3100 sq. mi. (8029 sq. km) Capital: Vladikavkaz.
- north sea oil — oil extracted from deposits beneath the North Sea
- northerliness — The quality of being northerly.
- nothingnesses — Plural form of nothingness.
- nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
- 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.
- odontornithes — a proposed class of birds that possess teeth
- old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
- on the inside — in a position allowing access to secret information, special advantage or favor, etc.
- on the parish — receiving parochial relief
- one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
- onychorrhexis — (pathology) fingernail and toenail brittleness and breakage, such as may be due to excessive strong soap and water exposure, nail polish remover, hypothyroidism, anemia, anorexia nervosa or bulimia, or after oral retinoid therapy.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
- orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
- orchestration — (uncountable) the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
- 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.
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- overhastiness — the condition of being overhasty
- overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- panaesthetism — the belief that consciousness may be present in all matter
- pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- parasynthesis — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- parasynthetic — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
- paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
- pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.