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13-letter words containing s, i, d, e, l, o

  • shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
  • 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.
  • sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
  • silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
  • silver dollar — A silver dollar is an American coin, worth one dollar, that is made of silver.
  • silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
  • silver iodide — a pale-yellow, water-insoluble solid, AgI, which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in medicine, photography, and artificial rainmaking.
  • skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
  • slender loris — loris (def 1).
  • slieve donard — a mountain in SE Northern Ireland, in the Mourne Mountains: highest peak in Northern Ireland. Height: 853 m (2798 ft)
  • slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
  • social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
  • social-minded — interested in or concerned with social conditions or the welfare of society.
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • sounding line — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
  • special order — A special order is an extra order or an order for an item specially requested by a customer.
  • special-order — to obtain by specific individual order: to special-order a dining-room chandelier.
  • spider flower — cleome
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.
  • superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
  • symbolic code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
  • synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • telediagnosis — the detection of a disease by evaluating data transmitted to a receiving station from instruments monitoring a distant patient, as someone in a spacecraft.
  • teledildonics — a technology supposedly enabling two or more people to engage in sexual activity remotely
  • two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
  • un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
  • undeleterious — injurious to health: deleterious gases.
  • undiagnosable — unable to be diagnosed
  • unmetabolised — not metabolised
  • unsoldierlike — not befitting a soldier
  • versicoloured — of variable or various colours
  • violin spider — brown recluse spider.
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • water soldier — an aquatic plant, Stratiotes aloides, of Europe and NW Asia, having rosettes of large leaves and large three-petalled white flowers: family Hydrocharitaceae
  • well disposed — If you are well disposed to a person, plan, or activity, you are likely to agree with them or support them.
  • well-disposed — favorably, sympathetically, or kindly disposed: The sponsors are well-disposed toward our plan.
  • well-polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
  • words fail me — I am too happy, sad, amazed, etc, to express my thoughts
  • world service — a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which transmits programmes in many languages around the world
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