13-letter words containing s, h, u, t, i
- nonexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
- pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- photoacoustic — optoacoustic
- physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
- 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.
- pseudesthesia — phantom limb pain.
- 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
- residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
- 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.
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
- runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
- school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
- short-circuit — Electricity. to make (an appliance, switch, etc.) inoperable by establishing a short circuit in. to carry (a current) as a short circuit.
- shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
- shunt winding — the winding of an electric motor or generator in such a way that the field and armature circuits are connected in parallel
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
- south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
- south nahanni — a river in the SW Northwest Territories, Canada, flowing SE from near the Yukon border to the Liard River. 336 miles (540 km) long.
- south ossetia — a region in N Georgia, on the S side of the Caucasus Range. 1506 sq. mi. (3900 sq. km).
- south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
- south vietnam — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
- south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
- southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- spathiphyllum — any of various tropical plants of the genus Spathiphyllum, having a white or green spathe and a spike of fragrant flowers and often cultivated as an ornamental.
- stand up with — to act as a wedding attendant to
- station house — a police station or fire station.
- step out with — to be a boyfriend or girlfriend of (someone), esp publicly
- straighten up — stand straighter
- street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
- stuffed shirt — a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.
- styling brush — a hairbrush used to style or neaten hair
- subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
- subepithelial — any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions.
- subinhibitory — not completely inhibiting
- suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.