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

  • seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
  • shearing shed — a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool
  • shed light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • sight reading — the act or skill of performing unfamiliar written music, or of translating something written in a foreign language, readily on sight, without previous study
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • single-handed — accomplished or done by one person alone: a single-handed victory; single-handed sailing.
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
  • speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
  • speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • sphenoid bone — the large butterfly-shaped compound bone at the base of the skull, containing a protective depression for the pituitary gland
  • spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • swindle sheet — an expense account.
  • 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.
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the decencies — those things that are considered necessary for a decent life
  • 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
  • thick-skinned — having a thick skin.
  • third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
  • thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
  • thomas edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
  • thunderstrike — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
  • underemphasis — inadequate emphasis.
  • underfinished — (of a farm animal) not having developed enough flesh
  • undishonoured — not dishonoured; not disgraced or disrespected
  • unembellished — to beautify by or as if by ornamentation; ornament; adorn.
  • unestablished — not established.
  • unreplenished — not replenished or refilled
  • verkhneudinsk — former name of Ulan Ude.
  • wedding chest — an ornamented chest for a trousseau.
  • well-finished — ended or completed.
  • western hindi — the vernacular of the western half of the Hindi-speaking area in India: the basis of Hindustani and of literary Hindi and Urdu.
  • whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
  • winding sheet — shroud (def 1).
  • windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
  • withdrawnness — The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
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