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13-letter words containing s, p, h, r

  • spermatorrhea — abnormally frequent and involuntary nonorgasmic emission of semen.
  • spheristerion — an area designated for ballplay
  • spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
  • spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
  • 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
  • spine-chiller — a book, film, etc, that arouses terror
  • spirochetosis — a disease caused by infection with a spirochete.
  • sportsmanship — the character, practice, or skill of a sportsman.
  • sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
  • sprint finish — the end of a long race in which competitors speed up as they approach the finish line
  • sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
  • sprung rhythm — a poetic rhythm characterized by the use of strongly accented syllables, often in juxtaposition, accompanied by an indefinite number of unaccented syllables in each foot, of which the accented syllable is the essential component.
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • squash player — a person who plays squash
  • stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
  • star sapphire — a sapphire, cut cabochon, exhibiting asterism in the form of a colorless six-rayed star.
  • steeplechaser — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
  • stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • stratigraphic — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
  • successorship — the position or state of a successor
  • sulphonylurea — an antidiabetic drug used in treating type II diabetes, which acts by stimulating the production of insulin in the pancreas
  • super-heroine — a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines.
  • super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
  • superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
  • superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
  • superhumanize — to make superhuman, or represent as such
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • superstrength — great strength
  • superthriller — a highly sensational film or book
  • suprachiasmic — relating to the area in the hypothalamus that regulates the biological clock
  • symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
  • tapestry moth — carpet moth.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • tauromorphous — having the form of a bull
  • teacher's pet — a pupil who is a favorite of a teacher.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • the best part — If you say that something happened for the best part or the better part of a period of time, you mean that it happened for most of that time.
  • the oppressed — people who are subjugated by cruelty, force, etc
  • the pole star — the star closest to the N celestial pole at any particular time. At present this is Polaris, but it will eventually be replaced by some other star owing to precession of the earth's axis
  • the potteries — a region of W central England, in Staffordshire, in which the china and earthenware industries are concentrated
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • the spiritual — the realm of spirits
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