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

  • spine-chiller — a book, film, etc, that arouses terror
  • spokesmanship — the office or skilful use of the office of spokesman
  • sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
  • stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
  • statesmanship — the ability, qualifications, or practice of a statesman; wisdom and skill in the management of public affairs.
  • station house — a police station or fire station.
  • steam heating — a heating system utilizing steam circulated through radiators and pipes.
  • steinheim man — a human of the middle Pleistocene Epoch known from a skull found in Germany and considered to be archaic Homo sapiens.
  • stirlingshire — Also called Stirlingshire [stur-ling-sheer, -sher] /ˈstɜr lɪŋˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in central Scotland.
  • straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
  • strengthening — to make stronger; give strength to.
  • string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • 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.
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • super-heroine — a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines.
  • superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
  • superhumanize — to make superhuman, or represent as such
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
  • swindle sheet — an expense account.
  • switch engine — a locomotive for switching rolling stock in a yard.
  • synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • synecphonesis — the fusion of two syllables into one
  • synthesis gas — any of several gaseous mixtures consisting essentially of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, used in the synthesis of chemical compounds, as ammonia and alcohols.
  • synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • testing bench — a piece of equipment for testing if a machine or device is working properly
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the ascension — the bodily ascent of Jesus into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection: Acts 1:9
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the conscious — that part of one's mental activity of which one is fully aware at any given time
  • the decencies — those things that are considered necessary for a decent life
  • the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
  • the headlines — the main points of a television or radio news broadcast, read out before the full broadcast and summarized at the end
  • the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
  • the invisible — God
  • the night sky — the sky as it appears at night time
  • the offensive — an attitude or position of aggression
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • the seventies — the years numbered 70–79 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
  • theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
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