13-letter words containing s, h, i, m, n, g
- rising rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of metrical feet each of which is composed of one accented syllable preceded by one or more unaccented ones.
- rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
- shipping room — a place in a business concern where goods are packed and shipped.
- shopping mall — mall (def 1).
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- speech making — act of addressing the public formally
- sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
- sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
- stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
- steam heating — a heating system utilizing steam circulated through radiators and pipes.
- swimming bath — swimming pool.
- swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
- thermogenesis — the production of heat, especially in an animal body by physiological processes.
- thermosetting — pertaining to a type of plastic, as the urea resins, that sets when heated and cannot be remolded.
- thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- thumb-sucking — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- trash farming — cultivation by leaving stubble, etc, on the surface of the soil to serve as a mulch
- undiminishing — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- whitesmithing — The trade of a whitesmith.