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15-letter words containing h, a, i, r, s, l

  • louisiana heron — tricolored heron.
  • machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
  • make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
  • masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
  • medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
  • michaelmas term — the autumn term at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the Inns of Court, and some other educational establishments
  • microaerophiles — Plural form of microaerophile.
  • microphysically — in a microphysical manner
  • military school — military academy.
  • naismith's rule — a rule of thumb for calculating the time needed for a climbing expedition, allowing 1 hour for every 3 miles of distance plus 1 hour for every 2000 feet of height
  • natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
  • natural history — the sciences, as botany, mineralogy, or zoology, dealing with the study of all objects in nature: used especially in reference to the beginnings of these sciences in former times.
  • natural varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
  • neo-lutheranism — a movement begun in the 19th century in Germany and Scandinavia to revive the orthodox principles, beliefs, and practices of the Lutheran Church.
  • nephrolithiasis — (pathology) presence of calculi in kidneys.
  • nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
  • north australia — a former division of Australia; now part of the Northern Territory.
  • north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
  • nuclear physics — the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure, and component parts of atomic nuclei.
  • oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
  • oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
  • orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
  • organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
  • phosphorylation — to introduce the phosphoryl group into (an organic compound).
  • phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
  • photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
  • plain of sharon — a plain in W Israel, between the Mediterranean and the hills of Samaria, extending from Haifa to Tel Aviv
  • pre-established — to establish beforehand.
  • psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
  • psychiatrically — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
  • psychographical — relating to psychographics
  • quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • raise the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
  • relative to sth — Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • 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
  • saguia el hamra — the N part of Western Sahara.
  • sailor's choice — any of various small percoid fishes of American coastal regions of the Atlantic, esp the grunt Haemulon parra and the pinfish
  • sailor's-choice — any of several fishes living in waters along the Atlantic coast of the U.S., especially a pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, ranging from Massachusetts to Texas, and a grunt, Haemulon parrai, ranging from Florida to Brazil.
  • saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • scared shitless — terrified
  • 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
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