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16-letter words containing e, y, s, h, a

  • sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • spiny-rayed fish — any of various fishes, as basses and perches, that have sharp, often pointed and usually rigid fin spines.
  • spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
  • stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • straight whiskey — pure, unblended whiskey of 80 to 110 proof.
  • strawberry shrub — Carolina allspice
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • surveyor's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • take holy orders — to become ordained
  • tea and sympathy — a caring attitude, esp to someone in trouble
  • that's as may be — even so
  • the easter bunny — the rabbit that brings Easter eggs
  • the easy way out — least demanding solution
  • the first family — a President's family
  • the great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the years of sth — the period when sth happened or existed
  • the-card-players — a painting (1892) by Paul Cézanne.
  • 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.
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • to say the least — at the minimum
  • transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
  • two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
  • way of all flesh — a novel (1903) by Samuel Butler.
  • way of the cross — stations of the cross.
  • weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
  • 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.
  • woody nightshade — bittersweet (def 3).
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