13-letter words containing t, h, e, i
- sergeant fish — cobia
- serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- 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.
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
- share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
- sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
- 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.
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- shiftlessness — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- ship of state — a nation or its affairs likened to a ship under sail.
- ship's stores — a retail store aboard a navy ship that sells toiletries, cigarettes, etc., to the ship's personnel.
- ship-to-shore — operating between a ship and the shore: a ship-to-shore radio.
- shirt-sleeves — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- short-sighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- short-termism — If you accuse people of short-termism, you mean that they make decisions that produce benefits now or soon, rather than making better decisions that will produce benefits in the future.
- short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
- 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
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- 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.
- sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
- sit well with — to be agreeable to
- sixty-seventh — next after the sixty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 67.
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- slàinte mhath — a drinking toast; cheers
- smooth collie — a breed of short-haired collie with a smooth, thick coat.
- snap the whip — crack the whip (def 2).
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- somersetshire — a county in SW England. 1335 sq. mi. (3455 sq. km).
- sophisticated — sophisticated.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
- south ossetia — a region in N Georgia, on the S side of the Caucasus Range. 1506 sq. mi. (3900 sq. km).
- south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
- south vietnam — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.