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13-letter words containing s, h, e, u

  • step out with — to be a boyfriend or girlfriend of (someone), esp publicly
  • stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
  • stout-hearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
  • 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.
  • subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
  • subepithelial — any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions.
  • successorship — the position or state of a successor
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • 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
  • sulphonylurea — an antidiabetic drug used in treating type II diabetes, which acts by stimulating the production of insulin in the pancreas
  • summer school — study programs offered by a school, college, or university during the summer to those who wish to obtain their degrees more quickly, who must make up credits, or who wish to supplement their education.
  • summer squash — any of several squashes of the variety Cucurbita pepo melopepo, that mature in the late summer or early autumn and are used as a vegetable in an unripe state, before the rind and seeds become hard.
  • 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.
  • super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
  • superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
  • superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
  • superhumanize — to make superhuman, or represent as such
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • superstrength — great strength
  • superthriller — a highly sensational film or book
  • surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
  • surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
  • surgery hours — the period of time each day when a doctor's surgery or office is open
  • sweet sorghum — sorgo.
  • tahrir square — a large square in central Cairo, in Egypt. The name, meaning ‘liberation’, was used informally after the 1919 revolution and then officially after the 1952 revolution. Scene of mass demonstrations in 2011 against the government of president Hosni Mubarak
  • tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • that's enough — You say 'that's enough' to tell someone, especially a child, to stop behaving in a silly, noisy, or unpleasant way.
  • the big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
  • the big issue — a weekly magazine, founded to highlight the plight of the homeless, and sold by homeless people
  • the conscious — that part of one's mental activity of which one is fully aware at any given time
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
  • the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
  • the jig is up — that ends it; all chances for success are gone
  • the southeast — the southeastern part of Britain, esp the London area
  • the southwest — the southwestern part of Britain, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • the spiritual — the realm of spirits
  • the squitters — diarrhoea
  • the sum total — the result you get when you add numbers or amounts together
  • the superrich — exceptionally wealthy people, considered collectively
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