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

  • saint-barthelemy — (Saint Bartholomew; Saint Barts; Saint Barths) a resort island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands, part of the French department of Guadeloupe. 6900; 8 sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
  • saint-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
  • savannah sparrow — a North American sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis, having brown and white plumage with a yellow stripe over each eye.
  • savonarola chair — a chair of the Renaissance having a number of transverse pairs of curved legs, crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
  • scarborough lily — a plant, Vallota speciosa, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of funnel-shaped, scarlet flowers.
  • schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
  • schiff's reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
  • school librarian — a librarian who works in or is in charge of a school library
  • schoolteacherish — showing characteristics thought to be typical of a schoolteacher, as strictness and primness.
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • scratch hardness — resistance of a material, as a stone or metal, to scratching by one of several other materials, the known hardnesses of which are assembled into a standard scale, as the Mohs' scale of minerals.
  • scratch together — to assemble with difficulty
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • sea fish farming — the farming of saltwater fish
  • sealyham terrier — one of a Welsh breed of small terriers having short legs, a docked tail, and a wiry, mostly white coat.
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • secondary school — a high school or a school of corresponding grade, ranking between a primary school and a college or university.
  • secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
  • seleucia trachea — an ancient city in SE Asia Minor, on the River Calycadnus (modern Goksu Nehri): captured by the Turks in the 13th century; site of present-day Silifke (Turkey)
  • semi-hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
  • shaft horsepower — the horsepower delivered to the driving shaft of an engine, as measured by a torsion meter. Abbreviation: shp, SHP.
  • shag pile carpet — a large piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor
  • shaggy dog story — a funny story, traditionally about a talking dog, that, after an often long and involved narration of unimportant incidents, has an absurd or irrelevant punch line.
  • shaggy-dog story — a funny story, traditionally about a talking dog, that, after an often long and involved narration of unimportant incidents, has an absurd or irrelevant punch line.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shaker and mover — mover and shaker
  • share and enjoy! — 1. Commonly found at the end of software release announcements and README files, this phrase indicates allegiance to the hacker ethic of free information sharing (see hacker ethic). 2. The motto of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (the ultimate gaggle of incompetent suits) in Douglas Adams's "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The irony of using this as a cultural recognition signal appeals to freeware hackers.
  • share repurchase — A share repurchase is a situation in which a company buys back its own shares.
  • shared ownership — (in Britain) a form of house purchase whereby the purchaser buys a proportion of the dwelling, usually from a local authority or housing association, and rents the rest
  • shared resources — the sharing of peripherals among several terminals
  • sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
  • shark repellents — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
  • sharpe's grysbok — either of two small, usually solitary antelopes of southern Africa, Raphicerus melanotis, or R. sharpei (Sharpe's grysbok) having a light to dark reddish-brown coat speckled with white.
  • sheet-web weaver — any of numerous spiders of the family Linyphiidae, characterized by a closely woven, sheetlike web.
  • shemini atzereth — a Jewish festival celebrated on the 22nd day of Tishri, being the 8th day of Sukkoth: marked by a memorial service for the dead and prayers for rain in Israel.
  • shepherd's plaid — a checkered black and white pattern
  • shifting spanner — an adjustable spanner
  • shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
  • shit-eating grin — a sly, knowing, or self-satisfied grin
  • shoemaker's shop — a shop where shoes are repaired, or made
  • shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
  • shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
  • shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
  • shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
  • shorthand typing — shorthand and typing
  • shorthand typist — A shorthand typist is a person who types and writes shorthand, usually in an office.
  • shorthand writer — a person trained to write in shorthand
  • shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
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