13-letter words containing s, i, l, h, o
- semiochemical — a chemical substance produced by an animal and used in communications, such as a pheromone
- senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
- shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
- shed light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- shirley poppy — a cultivated strain of the corn poppy, having variously colored single or double flowers.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- shoot-to-kill — of or relating to shooting by soldiers or police that is intended to kill rather than disable
- shopping list — a list made by a shopper of items or goods to be bought.
- shopping mall — mall (def 1).
- short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
- 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
- silkworm moth — any of several moths of the families Bombycidae and Saturniidae, the larvae of which are silkworms.
- silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
- sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
- slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
- small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- smooth collie — a breed of short-haired collie with a smooth, thick coat.
- social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
- solar chariot — (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
- sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
- spot lighting — Spot lighting is lighting directed towards and used to draw attention to a product or display.
- stiletto heel — spike heel.
- strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
- 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.
- swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
- sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
- 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.
- synophthalmia — cyclopia.
- syphilization — the act of syphilizing
- syphilophobia — the excessive fear of syphilis
- technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- thanatologist — a person who engages in the academic study of death and dying
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the spotlight — the focus of attention
- thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.