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16-letter words containing a, s, h, i, e, r

  • district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
  • drumhead service — a religious service attended by members of a military unit while in the field
  • earth-shattering — earthshaking.
  • earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
  • electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
  • electronic flash — Photography
  • electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
  • engineer's chain — a unit of length equal to 100 feet
  • english heritage — an organization, partly funded by government aid, that looks after ancient monuments and historic buildings in England
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
  • ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
  • exotic shorthair — a short-haired variety of domestic cat with a stocky body, developed through crossing Persian cats with American shorthairs
  • fahrenheit scale — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
  • faintheartedness — The quality or state of being fainthearted.
  • fairview heights — a city in SW Illinois.
  • fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
  • father christmas — Santa Claus.
  • fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
  • fisherman's bend — a knot made by taking a round turn on the object to which the rope is to be fastened, passing the end of the rope around the standing part and under the round turn, and securing the end.
  • fisherman's knot — a knot for joining two ropes of equal thickness consisting of an overhand knot or double overhand knot by each rope round the other, so that the two knots jam when pulled tight
  • fisherman's ring — the signet ring worn by the pope.
  • flash eliminator — a device fitted to the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the flash made by the ignited propellant gases
  • floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
  • franchise clause — a clause stipulating that the insured will be responsible for any loss not in excess of a stated amount, and the insurance company will be liable for full payment of the loss equaling or exceeding the amount up to the insured amount.
  • francis joseph i — 1830–1916, emperor of Austria 1848–1916; king of Hungary 1867–1916.
  • fraternity house — a house occupied by a college or university fraternity.
  • fraunhofer lines — a set of dark lines appearing in the continuous emission spectrum of the sun. It is caused by the absorption of light of certain wavelengths coming from the hotter region of the sun by elements in the cooler outer atmosphere
  • french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
  • ft share indexes — any of a number of share indexes published by the Financial Times to reflect various aspects of stock exchange prices
  • garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • gender dysphoria — a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth.
  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • get sth straight — If you get something straight, you make sure that you understand it properly or that someone else does.
  • gnu archive site — (body)   The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
  • go off the rails — If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that other people think is unacceptable or very strange, for example they start taking drugs or breaking the law.
  • graphic designer — person: commercial artist
  • graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
  • haemochromatosis — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hemochromatosis.
  • hammerstein (ii) — Oscar1895-1960; U.S. librettist & lyricist of musical comedies
  • handling charges — a fee paid to cover the packaging, transport, etc, of a commodity
  • hard times token — any of a series of U.S. copper tokens, issued 1834–41, bearing a political inscription or advertising message and serving as currency during coin shortages.
  • harvest festival — religious celebration of crops gathered
  • harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
  • haversian system — a Haversian canal and the series of concentric bony plates surrounding it.
  • hawaiian gardens — a town in SW California.
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