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13-letter words containing s, t, h, r, i, n

  • pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
  • preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
  • premonishment — a forewarning
  • presidentship — presidency.
  • pretendership — the standing of a pretender
  • promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
  • prosthodontia — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
  • psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
  • ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • resident head — someone who is charge of running and supervising a student residence
  • rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
  • right as rain — perfectly healthy
  • right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
  • righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
  • rising rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of metrical feet each of which is composed of one accented syllable preceded by one or more unaccented ones.
  • runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
  • scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
  • screen rights — the rights to make a film version of a book
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • sheet erosion — Geology. erosion by sheets of running water, rather than by streams.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • shooting iron — a firearm, especially a pistol or revolver.
  • shooting star — meteor (def 1b).
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • shopping trip — visit to the shops
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
  • shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
  • sight reading — the act or skill of performing unfamiliar written music, or of translating something written in a foreign language, readily on sight, without previous study
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
  • south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • spheristerion — an area designated for ballplay
  • sportsmanship — the character, practice, or skill of a sportsman.
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