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13-letter words containing s, i, n, h, a, l

  • inexhaustible — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
  • inexhaustibly — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
  • infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
  • inhospitality — lack of hospitality; inhospitable attitude toward or treatment of visitors, guests, etc.
  • italian sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord, characterized by having a major third and an augmented sixth above the root
  • joseph stalin — Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
  • kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
  • labyrinthitis — inflammation of the inner ear, or labyrinth, characterized by dizziness, nausea, and visual disturbances.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • languishingly — In a languishing manner.
  • 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.
  • leishmaniasis — any infection caused by a protozoan of the genus Leishmania.
  • leishmaniosis — Alt form leishmaniasis.
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • librarianship — a profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
  • lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • 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.
  • load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
  • load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
  • loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
  • losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
  • lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
  • lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.
  • machine-steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
  • malthusianism — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
  • melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
  • mesencephalic — Anatomy. the midbrain.
  • michelin star — a mark of distinction awarded by the Michelin travel guides to a restaurant in recognition of the high quality of its cooking. A restaurant may receive one, two, or three stars, representing very good, exceptional, or exquisite cuisine, respectively
  • myelin sheath — a wrapping of myelin around certain nerve axons, serving as an electrical insulator that speeds nerve impulses to muscles and other effectors.
  • nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
  • necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
  • nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • nightmarishly — In a nightmarish manner.
  • niklaus wirth — (person)   The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
  • non-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • nonhistorical — Not based on or drawn from history.
  • nonhysterical — not hysterical or funny
  • nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
  • nonpunishable — Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
  • nonshrinkable — incapable of being shrunk
  • north sea oil — oil extracted from deposits beneath the North Sea
  • old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
  • organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
  • orthogonalise — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
  • outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
  • pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • phalansterian — of or relating to a phalanstery.
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