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13-letter words containing s, i, l, h, o, u

  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
  • hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hyposexuality — A significantly low level of sexuality.
  • hyposulphuric — relating to sulphur which is in a lower state of oxidation than it is in sulphuric compounds
  • i'll show you — You can say 'I'll show you' to threaten or warn someone that you are going to make them admit that they are wrong.
  • ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
  • in silhouette — If you see something in silhouette, you see it as a dark shape with no detail except for the outline.
  • 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.
  • insulin shock — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
  • isle of youth — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
  • isochronously — In an isochronous manner.
  • john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
  • junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • lissotrichous — having straight hair.
  • lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
  • lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
  • luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
  • melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
  • microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
  • microphyllous — having microphylls
  • middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
  • milk mushroom — any of the common latex-containing mushrooms of the genus Lactarius.
  • mischievously — maliciously or playfully annoying.
  • multihospital — comprising or relating to several hospitals
  • multiple shop — chain store.
  • neurosyphilis — Syphilis that involves the central nervous system.
  • nonpunishable — Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
  • outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
  • philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
  • physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
  • pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
  • psammophilous — living or growing in sand
  • public school — (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
  • reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
  • 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.
  • 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
  • shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
  • sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
  • south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
  • thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
  • turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
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