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13-letter words containing s, i, d, e, c, h

  • fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
  • finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
  • fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
  • hand-stitched — stitched by hand rather than by a machine
  • handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
  • herd instinct — the impulse or tendency toward clustering or acting in a group, especially the presumed instinct toward or need for gregariousness and conformity.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
  • homoscedastic — having the same variance.
  • hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
  • list enhanced — (operating system, tool)   An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
  • maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
  • 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.
  • merchandisers — Plural form of merchandiser.
  • merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • methodistical — Methodistic.
  • middle school — a school intermediate between elementary school and high school, usually encompassing grades five or six through eight.
  • miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
  • monochlorides — Plural form of monochloride.
  • niedersachsen — German name of Lower Saxony.
  • officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
  • polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
  • pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
  • 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.
  • saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • sandwich beam — flitch beam.
  • sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • school dinner — meal served at educational institution
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
  • semi-attached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semi-detached — partly detached.
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • sick headache — migraine.
  • sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • sophisticated — sophisticated.
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