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

  • philosophical — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
  • philosophizer — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
  • phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
  • phospholipase — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the breaking down of phospholipids.
  • photovoltaics — (used with a singular verb) a field of semiconductor technology involving the direct conversion of electromagnetic radiation as sunlight, into electricity.
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • physical file — (file system)   A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
  • physicalistic — of or relating to physicalism.
  • physicalities — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
  • physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
  • physiological — of or relating to physiology.
  • physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
  • pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • pistol shrimp — any common shrimp of the family Alphaeidae, distinguished by the snapping sound made by its enlarged claw.
  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • pleasant hill — a city in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
  • pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
  • polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
  • polyarthritis — arthritis occurring in more than one joint.
  • polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
  • pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
  • pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
  • principalship — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
  • psammophilous — living or growing in sand
  • psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
  • psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  • psychological — of or relating to psychology.
  • psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
  • psychrophilic — (esp of bacteria) showing optimum growth at low temperatures
  • public school — (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
  • 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.
  • reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
  • replenishable — able to be replenished
  • replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
  • reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
  • rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
  • rhyming slang — a form of slang in which a rhyming word or phrase is substituted for the word intended, as Kate and Sidney for steak and kidney or khaki rocks for army socks.
  • richter scale — a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake.
  • riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
  • saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
  • saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
  • san juan hill — a hill in SE Cuba, near Santiago de Cuba: captured by U.S. forces in battle during the Spanish-American War in 1898.
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
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