16-letter words containing e, n, s, h, r
- the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
- the renosterveld — an area of high altitude in SW South Africa, having fertile ground
- the resurrection — the rising of Jesus from the dead after his death and burial
- the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
- the sex industry — a commercial sector that employs sex workers in prostitution, pornography, etc.
- the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
- the sooner state — the nickname of the US state of Oklahoma, which comes from the name of its early settlers
- the supernatural — supernatural forces, occurrences, and beings collectively or their realm
- the swiss-french — people from French-speaking Switzerland
- the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
- the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
- theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
- there's no hurry — If you say to someone 'There's no hurry' or 'I'm in no hurry' you are telling them that there is no need for them to do something immediately.
- thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
- thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
- thermal neutrons — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- thermoanesthesia — thermanesthesia.
- thioarsenic acid — any of three hypothetical acids, H3AsS4, HAsS3, and H4As2S7, known only in the forms of their salts
- this-worldliness — concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.
- thomas jefferson — Joseph, 1829–1905, U.S. actor.
- throw oneself at — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- throw oneself on — to rely entirely upon
- to coin a phrase — You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
- topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
- transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
- true-heartedness — the quality of being true-hearted
- tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
- turkish crescent — crescent (def 6).
- un-reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
- uncharacteristic — Also, characteristical. pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.
- uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- under sb's thumb — If you are under someone's thumb, you are under their control, or very heavily influenced by them.
- undernourishment — If someone is suffering from undernourishment, they have poor health because they are not eating enough food or are eating the wrong kind of food.
- union membership — members of a trade union
- unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
- vauxhall gardens — a public garden at Vauxhall, laid out in 1661; a fashionable meeting place and site of lavish entertainments. Closed in 1859
- visiting teacher — a teacher in a public school system, assigned to give home instruction to sick or disabled pupils.
- ward christensen — (person) The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmed mainframes for IBM. Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on 1978-02-16 in Chicago. It ran on an S-100 computer with 64k RAM and two single-sided 8" 250kB diskettes.
- washing-up water — water used for washing dishes
- watson-wentworth — Charles, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham [rok-ing-uh m] /ˈrɒk ɪŋ əm/ (Show IPA), 1730–82, British statesman: prime minister 1765–66, 1782.
- weatherstripping — A piece of weatherstrip material.
- western sandwich — a sandwich with a western omelet for a filling.
- whirling dervish — a member of a Turkish order of dervishes, or Sufis, whose ritual consists in part of a highly stylized whirling dance.
- white rhinoceros — an African rhinoceros, Diceros simus, having two horns on the nose
- whole nine yards — a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
- wholeheartedness — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- wiener schnitzel — Viennese Cookery. a breaded veal cutlet, variously seasoned or garnished.
- winchester rifle — a type of magazine rifle, first made in about 1866.
- windshield wiper — an electrically or pneumatically operated device consisting of a squeegee connected to a mechanical arm designed to wipe off rain, snow, etc., from a windshield or rear window.
- worth one's salt — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.