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18-letter words containing h, a, o, r, i

  • shipping container — a large, strong container, usually of metal, used to store goods in during shipment
  • short-tailed shrew — a grayish-black shrew, Blarina brevicauda, common in eastern North America, that has a tail less than half the length of the body.
  • shugart associates — (company)   The disk drive company, founded by Alan F. Shugart, which developed SCSI. Alan left Shugart Associates in 1974 [did he quit or was he fired?]. Shugart Associates was bought, and eventually shut down by Xerox.
  • shunting operation — an operation in which rail coaches are manoeuvred
  • sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
  • something to spare — a surplus of something
  • southern rhodesian — a former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe (def 1).
  • spectroheliography — the process of obtaining an image of the sun in light of a particular wavelength, such as calcium or hydrogen, showing the distribution of the element over the surface and in the solar atmosphere, using a spectroheliograph
  • spherical geometry — the branch of geometry that deals with figures on spherical surfaces.
  • spike-tooth harrow — a harrow equipped with straight teeth on horizontal bars, usually employed to smooth and level plowed soil or seedbeds for planting or sowing.
  • stoichiometrically — of or relating to stoichiometry.
  • stokely carmichael — Hoagland Howard [hohg-luh nd] /ˈhoʊg lənd/ (Show IPA), ("Hoagy") 1899–1981, U.S. songwriter and musician.
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • supportive therapy — any treatment, such as the intravenous administration of certain fluids, designed to reinforce or sustain the physiological well-being of a patient
  • teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the coast is clear — If you say that the coast is clear, you mean that there is nobody around to see you or catch you.
  • the dark continent — a term for Africa when it was relatively unexplored
  • the electronic age — the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use
  • the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
  • the grand national — an annual steeplechase run at Aintree, Liverpool, since 1839
  • the internationale — a revolutionary socialist hymn, first sung in 1871 in France
  • the major rogation — April 25, observed by Christians as a day of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops
  • the north atlantic — the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the waters separating North America and Europe
  • the operative word — If you describe a word as the operative word, you want to draw attention to it because you think it is important or exactly true in a particular situation.
  • the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • the-cocktail-party — a play in verse (1950) by T. S. Eliot.
  • the-dark-continent — Africa: so called, especially during the 19th century, because little was known about it.
  • theodore gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
  • there you go again — Phrases such as there you go again are used to show annoyance at someone who is repeating something that has annoyed you in the past.
  • thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
  • thiosulphuric acid — an unstable acid known only in solutions and in the form of its salts. Formula: H2S2O3
  • thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
  • to a grinding halt — If you describe a bad situation as grinding, you mean it never gets better, changes, or ends.
  • to be said for sth — If you say there is a lot to be said for something, you mean you think it has a lot of good qualities or aspects.
  • to raise the alarm — If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
  • transit theodolite — a theodolite having a telescope that can be transited.
  • transmission shaft — a shaft that rotates transmitting motion from the engine to the differential gear
  • triphosphoric acid — the hypothetical acid H 5 P 3 O 10 , known chiefly by its salts.
  • under the aegis of — guided or protected by
  • unification church — a religious sect that combines elements of Protestantism and Buddhism, founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in 1954: many of its members live in communes sponsored by the sect.
  • upper palaeolithic — the latest of the three periods of the Palaeolithic, beginning about 40 000 bc and ending, in Europe, about 12 000 bc: characterized by the emergence of modern man, Homo sapiens
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • vectorcardiography — a method of determining the direction and magnitude of the electrical forces of the heart.
  • warehouse capacity — the amount of storage space in a warehouse
  • water of hydration — the portion of a hydrate that is represented as, or can be expelled as, water: now usually regarded as being in true molecular combination with the other atoms of the compound, and not existing in the compound as water.
  • water on the brain — hydrocephalus.
  • westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
  • wheelchair housing — housing designed or adapted for a chairbound person
  • white-collar crime — any of various crimes, as embezzlement, fraud, or stealing office equipment, committed by business or professional people while working at their occupations.
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