13-letter words containing t, e, n, h, s
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
- section eight — a military discharge for physical or mental unfitness as determined by an Army Regulation in effect from 1922 to 1944.
- seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
- self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
- self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
- self-strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
- self-thinning — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
- semisynthetic — derived synthetically from one or more substances of natural origin.
- sensible heat — Sensible heat is heat which is exchanged in an energy generation system, and which only affects the temperature of one or more substances.
- sergeant fish — cobia
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
- set the scene — establish a certain setting
- seventeenthly — in the seventeenth place
- seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
- seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
- seventy-eight — a cardinal number, 70 plus 8.
- seventy-fifth — next after the seventy-fourth; being the ordinal number for 75.
- seventy-ninth — next after the seventy-eighth; being the ordinal number for 79.
- seventy-sixth — next after the seventy-fifth; being the ordinal number for 76.
- seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
- seventy-three — a cardinal number, 70 plus 3.
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- shamefastness — the state or quality of being modest, shy, or bashful
- share account — a savings account in a credit union.
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shed light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- sheep station — a large sheep farm
- sheet erosion — Geology. erosion by sheets of running water, rather than by streams.
- shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
- shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
- shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
- shiftlessness — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- shoot the sun — to measure the altitude of the sun in order to determine latitude
- short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- shoulder knot — a knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder, as by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries, by servants in livery, or by women or children.
- show and tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
- show-and-tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.