15-letter words containing g, e, r, s, h
- spaghetti strap — a thin, often rounded strip of fabric used in women's clothing, as to form a shoulder strap on a bare-shouldered garment.
- specific charge — the ratio of the charge on a particle to the mass of the particle.
- speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
- spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
- sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
- squeeze through — to press forcibly together; compress.
- staggered hours — a system of working in which the employees of an organization do not all arrive and leave at the same time, but have large periods of overlap
- standing charge — fixed energy costs
- start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
- starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
- states' righter — a person who opposes U.S. federal intervention in affairs of the separate states, supporting this position by a strict interpretation of the Constitution of the U.S.
- straight matter — the body text of an article, story, etc., as distinguished from the title, subhead, and other display matter.
- straight ticket — a ballot on which all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- street fighting — violent and illegal fighting between individuals or groups
- street lighting — the provision of lighting at night in public places to illuminate the streets
- strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
- string together — arrange coherently
- strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
- thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
- thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
- the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
- the everlasting — God
- the first thing — even one thing
- the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
- the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
- theory of games — game theory.
- thirtysomething — a person in her or his thirties
- thought process — thinking, train of thought
- tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
- training scheme — a scheme for teaching people skills in a particular field or profession
- training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
- troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
- unrelinquishing — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- unrighteousness — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.
- vanishing cream — a cosmetic similar to cold cream but less oily, applied usually to the face and neck as a base, night cream, or moisturizer.
- vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
- winesburg, ohio — a cycle of short stories (1919) by Sherwood Anderson.
- wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent
- wrongheadedness — The state of being wrongheaded.