15-letter words containing e, n, h, a, l
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- plain chocolate — dark eating chocolate
- plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
- plant-hire firm — a company that hires out mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc
- planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
- platyhelminthes — a phylum of worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft, usually flattened body, comprising the flatworms.
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
- polyphloesboean — noisy
- pre-elizabethan — (of English culture, history, traditions, etc.) before the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; before the second half of the 16th century.
- propionaldehyde — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 6 O, having a pungent odor: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics.
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- pullman kitchen — a kitchenette, often recessed into a wall and concealed by double doors or a screen.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
- quasi-technical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- quiche lorraine — a quiche containing bits of bacon or ham and often cheese.
- radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
- radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
- rheinland-pfalz — German name of Rhineland-Palatinate.
- rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
- richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- roll in the hay — a document of paper, parchment, or the like, that is or may be rolled up, as for storing; scroll.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- run the gantlet — to be punished by means of the gantlet
- russian thistle — a saltwort, Salsola kali tenuifolia, that has narrow, spinelike leaves, a troublesome weed in the central and western U.S.
- saffian leather — leather made of sheepskin or goatskin tanned with sumac and usually dyed a bright color
- saint elisabeth — the wife of Zacharias, mother of John the Baptist, and kinswoman of the Virgin Mary. Feast day: Nov 5 or 8
- saint elizabeth — the wife of Zacharias, mother of John the Baptist, and kinswoman of the Virgin Mary. Feast day: Nov 5 or 8
- saint-john-lake — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
- scarlet lychnis — a plant, Lychnis chalcedonica, of the pink family, having scarlet or sometimes white flowers, the arrangement and shape of the petals resembling a Maltese cross.
- schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
- schlieffen plan — a plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries, devised by Alfred, Count von Schlieffen (1833–1913) in 1905
- school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
- self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
- self-banishment — to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile: He was banished to Devil's Island.
- shalmaneser iii — died 824? b.c, Assyrian ruler 859–824?.
- shark repellent — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
- shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)
- shoulder season — a travel season between peak and off-peak seasons, especially spring and fall, when fares tend to be relatively low.
- shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
- shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- single-handedly — in a single-handed manner; single-handed.
- sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
- sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
- snaggle toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
- snaggle-toothed — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.