13-letter words containing s, h, o, d, i
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- lipodystrophy — A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
- load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
- losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
- medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
- methodistical — Methodistic.
- methodologies — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- methodologist — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- middle school — a school intermediate between elementary school and high school, usually encompassing grades five or six through eight.
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
- moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
- mohammedanism — Muhammadanism; Islam.
- monochlorides — Plural form of monochloride.
- neighborhoods — Plural form of neighborhood.
- new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
- odontornithes — a proposed class of birds that possess teeth
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
- ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
- on the inside — in a position allowing access to secret information, special advantage or favor, etc.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- orchidologist — someone who is knowledgeable in orchidology
- orthodontists — Plural form of orthodontist.
- otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
- outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
- overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
- phong shading — (graphics) A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
- phony disease — a disease of peaches, characterized by dwarfing, dark-green leaves, premature leafing and flowering, and the production of reduced numbers of small fruit, caused by a virus, Nanus mirabilis.
- photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
- piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- posix threads — (programming) (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
- post-midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
- prosthodontia — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
- pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
- rhodochrosite — a mineral, manganese carbonate, MnCO 3 , commonly containing some iron and calcium, and usually rose-red in color: a minor ore of manganese; manganese spar.
- ride the rods — to steal a ride on a freight train