13-letter words containing s, h, u, r, i
- milk mushroom — any of the common latex-containing mushrooms of the genus Lactarius.
- missel thrush — mistle thrush.
- mistle thrush — a large, European thrush, Turdus viscivorus, that feeds on the berries of the mistletoe.
- monmouthshire — a historic county in E Wales, now part of Gwent, Mid Glamorgan, and South Glamorgan.
- music theatre — a modern musical-dramatic work that is performed on a smaller scale than, and without the conventions of, traditional opera
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- mussel shrimp — any of numerous tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Ostracoda, having a shrimplike body enclosed in a hinged bivalve shell.
- neurosyphilis — Syphilis that involves the central nervous system.
- nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- nitrous ether — ethyl nitrite.
- opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
- outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- parish church — local place of worship
- pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
- requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
- residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
- rhizomorphous — rootlike in form.
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- right-justify — If printed text is right-justified, each line finishes at the same distance from the right-hand edge of the page or column.
- righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
- rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
- rosehip syrup — a syrup made from rosehips, used as a cough remedy
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
- runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
- runner's high — a state of euphoria experienced during prolonged running or other forms of aerobic, sustained exercise, attributed to an increase of endorphins in the blood.
- rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
- sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area