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.