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13-letter words containing s, o, r, d, e

  • shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
  • shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
  • shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
  • shut the door — put up a barrier
  • 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.
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
  • slatted floor — a floor made with slats of wood so that water can drain away
  • 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)
  • smoked rubber — a type of crude natural rubber in the form of brown sheets obtained by coagulating latex with an acid, rolling it into sheets, and drying over open wood fires. It is the main raw material for natural rubber products
  • soapbox derby — a race between children in homemade racing carts
  • 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.
  • sodium borate — borax1 .
  • soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
  • solar-powered — powered by heat radiation from the sun converted into electrical power
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • sound barrier — Also called sonic barrier, transonic barrier. (not in technical use) a hypothetical barrier to flight beyond the speed of sound, so postulated because aircraft undergo an abruptly increasing drag force induced by compression of the surrounding air when traveling near the speed of sound.
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
  • soupe du jour — the special, sometimes the only, soup served in a restaurant on any particular day
  • southeastward — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
  • southern toad — a common toad, Bufo terrestris, of the southeastern U.S., having prominent knoblike crests on its head.
  • southwestward — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
  • 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.
  • spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
  • spider flower — cleome
  • spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
  • spider orchid — any of several European orchids of the genus Ophrys, esp O. sphegodes, having a flower with yellow, green, or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
  • spotted adder — milk snake.
  • spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
  • spotted fever — any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, especially as in cerebrospinal meningitis or typhus fever.
  • spread option — spread (def 25b).
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
  • standard rose — a rose which has a long stem
  • standover man — a person who extorts money by intimidation
  • stepford wife — a married woman who submits to her husband's will and is preoccupied by domestic concerns and her own personal appearance
  • steroidogenic — of or pertaining to steroidogenesis
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • stone-hearted — stony-hearted.
  • stony-hearted — hardhearted.
  • stores ledger — a record kept of the amount, type, etc., of raw materials and supplies on hand, as in a manufacturing plant.
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