14-letter words containing a, s, h, u, r, n
- pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
- purse snatcher — wallet thief
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- redear sunfish — a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis microlophos, of the lower Mississippi valley and southeastern states, having the gill cover margined with scarlet.
- russian church — the autocephalous Eastern Church in Russia: the branch of the Orthodox Church that constituted the established church in Russia until 1917.
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- scotch furnace — ore hearth.
- servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
- shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
- shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
- shulchan aruch — the main codification of Jewish law derived from the Talmud, compiled by the 16th-century rabbi, Joseph Caro
- siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
- siphonapterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Siphonaptera, comprising the fleas.
- slash and burn — Slash and burn is a method of farming that involves clearing land by destroying and burning all the trees and plants on it, farming there for a short time, and then moving on to clear a new piece of land.
- slash-and-burn — of a method of agriculture used in the tropics, in which forest vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cropped for a few years, then the forest is allowed to reinvade.
- soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- south carolina — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 31,055 sq. mi. (80,430 sq. km). Capital: Columbia. Abbreviation: SC (for use with zip code), S.C.
- south georgian — 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 portland — a city in SW Maine.
- south suburban — a city in SE West Bengal, in E India: a suburb of Calcutta.
- southeasterner — a native or inhabitant of the southeast.
- southern ocean — that part of the Indian Ocean south of Australia
- southern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- southern stars — the Australian women’s national cricket team
- spanish burton — any of several tackles employing a runner in addition to the fall.
- spanish guitar — acoustic guitar.
- square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
- staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
- station church — any of the churches in Rome that have been used from ancient times as points of assembly for religious processions
- straighten out — make straighter
- surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
- the surinamese — the people of Surinam collectively
- thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
- thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
- treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
- turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
- turn of phrase — expression, wording
- turn the scale — Often, scales. a balance or any of various other instruments or devices for weighing: We gave the parents a baby scale. The butcher placed the meat on the scales.
- unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
- unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
- unchristianize — to make unchristian; to render no longer Christian; to remove Christian status or nature from
- under-research — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
- underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
- unhysterically — in a way that does not show or suggest any hysteria; calmly; rationally
- unicorn chaser — originally a picture of a unicorn posted on a blog site shortly after an offensive or disturbing picture has been posted, as a kind of antidote to the previous post. Now used of a comforting or innocent image, video clip, or topic viewed or contemplated following a previous, disturbing image, video, etc.
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise