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

  • 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.
  • 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).
  • pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
  • 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
  • replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • 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)
  • richter scale — a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake.
  • saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
  • schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
  • scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
  • see the light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
  • self-thinning — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
  • semi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
  • sensible heat — Sensible heat is heat which is exchanged in an energy generation system, and which only affects the temperature of one or more substances.
  • serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
  • share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
  • shed light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
  • shiftlessness — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
  • shirt-sleeves — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
  • sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
  • sit well with — to be agreeable to
  • sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
  • slàinte mhath — a drinking toast; cheers
  • smooth collie — a breed of short-haired collie with a smooth, thick coat.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
  • spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
  • sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
  • stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
  • steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
  • stiletto heel — spike heel.
  • stirlingshire — Also called Stirlingshire [stur-ling-sheer, -sher] /ˈstɜr lɪŋˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in central Scotland.
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