15-letter words containing h, a, r, k, i
- mohawk hair cut — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
- niche marketing — marketing aimed at a specialized group
- nutcracker chin — a strong-looking chin
- patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
- phenylketonuria — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- prairie chicken — either of two North American gallinaceous birds of western prairies, Tympanuchus cupido (greater prairie chicken) or T. pallidicinctus (lesser prairie chicken) having rufous, brown, black, and white plumage.
- raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
- red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
- sharm al-sheikh — a village and military post in E Egypt, on the Sinai Peninsula, guarding the Gulf of Suez.
- sharm el-sheikh — a city in Egypt on the southern point of the Sinai Peninsula on the Red Sea; a major holiday resort. Pop: 73 000 (2015 est)
- shelikof strait — a strait between the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island, in S Alaska. 130 miles (209 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
- shock resistant — not affected by impact
- shock-resistant — strong or resilient enough to sustain minor impacts without damage to the internal mechanism: a shock-resistant watch.
- shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
- shrink-wrapping — a flexible plastic wrapping designed to shrink about its contours to protect and seal something
- sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
- sinkiang uighur — an autonomous region in NW China, bordering Tibet, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Pakistan, and India: formerly a province. 635,830 sq. mi. (1,646,800 sq. km). Capital: Ürümqi.
- spanish paprika — a cultivated pepper, Capsicum annuum, grown originally in Spain.
- 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.
- strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
- sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
- thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
- thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
- the right track — the correct line of investigation, inquiry, etc
- the working man — working class people collectively
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
- trickle charger — a small mains-operated battery charger, esp one that delivers less than 5 amperes and is used by car owners
- turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
- unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
- universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
- white bear lake — a city in E Minnesota: summer resort.
- white snakeroot — a North American plant, Eupatorium urticaefolium, the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite
- working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
- yorkshire chair — Derbyshire chair.
- yorkshire dales — the valleys of the rivers flowing from the Pennines in W Yorkshire: chiefly Ribblesdale, Swaledale, Nidderdale, Wharfedale, and Wensleydale; tourist area