13-letter words containing s, h, r, i, e
- desynchronize — Disturb the synchronization of; put out of step or phase.
- devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- dimmer switch — A dimmer switch is an electrical switch which turns off the full beam of a headlamp and turns on the low beam.
- dimmer-switch — a person or thing that dims.
- direct speech — actual words spoken, not quoted or reported
- directorships — Plural form of directorship.
- disaccharides — Plural form of disaccharide.
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise.
- disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
- dish the dirt — share gossip
- disharmonized — Simple past tense and past participle of disharmonize.
- disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disinheriting — Present participle of disinherit.
- disinthralled — freed from thraldom
- distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
- downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
- dresden china — porcelain ware produced at Meissen, Germany, near Dresden, after 1710.
- driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
- drongo shrike — any insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics, having a glossy black plumage, a forked tail, and a stout bill
- drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
- dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
- early english — pertaining to the first style of Gothic architecture in England, ending in the latter half of the 13th century, characterized by the use of lancet arches, plate tracery, and narrow openings.
- earth science — any of various sciences, as geography, geology, or meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects.
- earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
- east ayrshire — a council area of SW Scotland, comprising the E part of the historical county of Ayrshire: part of Strathclyde region from 1975 to 1996: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Kilmarnock. Pop: 119 530 (2003 est). Area: 1252 sq km (483 sq miles)
- eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
- edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- enfranchising — Present participle of enfranchise.
- enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
- esthesiometer — an instrument for measuring the sensitivity of the sense of touch, esp. one for testing how far apart two points pressed against the skin have to be for the points to be felt as separate
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
- ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
- eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
- exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
- exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
- extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.
- extremophiles — Plural form of extremophile.
- false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.