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13-letter words containing t, o, h, l, e, s

  • shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • short-sleeved — having short sleeves
  • 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 the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • 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.
  • silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
  • single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • 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
  • sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
  • smooth collie — a breed of short-haired collie with a smooth, thick coat.
  • smooth muscle — involuntary muscle tissue in the walls of viscera and blood vessels, consisting of nonstriated, spindle-shaped cells.
  • smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
  • soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
  • southeasterly — coming from the south east
  • southern alps — a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island: the highest range in Australasia. Highest peak: Mount Cook (also known as Aoraki or Aorangi), 3754 m (12 316 ft)
  • southern blot — a procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific DNA sequence or gene in a mixed extract, as in testing for a mutation or a virus: DNA strands from the person or organism under study are cut with restriction enzymes, separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to special filter paper, and hybridized with a labeled DNA probe.
  • southwesterly — coming from the south west
  • speleotherapy — a form of treatment for asthma sufferers that takes place in clinics in disused mines, in which the air is free of pollen, dust mites, and the other irritants that provoke an allergic reaction; used to reduce the risk of heart disease
  • 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.
  • stenophyllous — having narrow leaves.
  • stiletto heel — spike heel.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
  • sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
  • the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
  • the last word — final retort
  • 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 spotlight — the focus of attention
  • the sum total — the result you get when you add numbers or amounts together
  • thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermotensile — of or relating to tensile strength in so far as it is affected by temperature
  • thespian lion — a lion that attacked the flocks of Amphitryon and was killed by Hercules.
  • thessalonians — a native or inhabitant of Thessalonike.
  • think less of — to have a lower opinion of
  • threefoldness — the state or condition of being threefold
  • to lose heart — If you lose heart, you become sad and depressed and are no longer interested in something, especially because it is not progressing as you would like.
  • to lose touch — If you lose touch with someone, you gradually stop writing, telephoning, or visiting them.
  • to raise hell — If you say that someone raises hell, you are emphasizing that they protest strongly and angrily about a situation in order to persuade other people to correct it or improve it.
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