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

  • disinheriting — Present participle of disinherit.
  • disinthralled — freed from thraldom
  • dispatch case — attaché case.
  • dispense with — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
  • distinguished — made conspicuous by excellence; noted; eminent; famous: a distinguished scholar. Synonyms: renowned, illustrious.
  • distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishes — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • dizzy heights — If you say that someone has reached the dizzy heights of something, you are emphasizing that they have reached a very high level by achieving it.
  • do the dishes — do the washing up, wash the dishes
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
  • dresden china — porcelain ware produced at Meissen, Germany, near Dresden, after 1710.
  • driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
  • drongo shrike — any insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics, having a glossy black plumage, a forked tail, and a stout bill
  • drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
  • dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
  • dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
  • dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
  • early english — pertaining to the first style of Gothic architecture in England, ending in the latter half of the 13th century, characterized by the use of lancet arches, plate tracery, and narrow openings.
  • earth science — any of various sciences, as geography, geology, or meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects.
  • earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
  • east ayrshire — a council area of SW Scotland, comprising the E part of the historical county of Ayrshire: part of Strathclyde region from 1975 to 1996: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Kilmarnock. Pop: 119 530 (2003 est). Area: 1252 sq km (483 sq miles)
  • eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
  • eating habits — the way a person or group eats, considered in terms of what types of food are eaten, in what quantities, and when
  • echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • ecophysiology — the branch of physiology that deals with the physiological processes of organisms with respect to their environment.
  • edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
  • elephant fish — a large marine fish, Callorhinchus milii, of southwest Pacific waters, having a snout resembling an elephant's trunk
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • elephantiasis — A condition in which a limb or other part of the body becomes grossly enlarged due to obstruction of the lymphatic vessels, typically by the nematode parasites that cause filariasis.
  • embellishment — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
  • enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
  • endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
  • enfranchising — Present participle of enfranchise.
  • english daisy — a small perennial plant (Bellis perennis) of the composite family, having single stalked heads with white or pinkish ray flowers
  • enhypostatize — to come together in one person or hypostasis
  • enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
  • entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
  • eschatologies — Plural form of eschatology.
  • eschscholzias — Plural form of eschscholzia.
  • establishable — Able to be established.
  • establishment — The action of establishing something or being established.
  • esthesiometer — an instrument for measuring the sensitivity of the sense of touch, esp. one for testing how far apart two points pressed against the skin have to be for the points to be felt as separate
  • ethnobotanist — A scholar or researcher in the field of ethnobotany.
  • ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
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