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18-letter words containing h, a, r, s, i, n

  • something to spare — a surplus of something
  • southern rhodesian — a former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe (def 1).
  • spherical triangle — a triangle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • 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
  • sub-saharan africa — the region of Africa to the south of the Sahara desert
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • sulfuric anhydride — sulfur trioxide.
  • survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
  • sympathetic string — a thin wire string, as in various obsolete musical instruments, designed to vibrate sympathetically with the bowed or plucked strings to reinforce the sound.
  • take sth in stride — If you take a problem or difficulty in stride, you deal with it calmly and easily.
  • technical reserves — Technical reserves are amounts of money set aside to pay for underwriting liabilities.
  • technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
  • the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
  • thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
  • threatened species — a species likely, in the near future, to become an endangered species within all or much of its range.
  • thrills and spills — If you refer to thrills and spills, you are referring to an experience which is exciting and full of surprises.
  • 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
  • under the aegis of — guided or protected by
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • wernicke's aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Wernicke's area of the brain and characterized by grammatical but more or less meaningless speech and an apparent inability to comprehend speech.
  • westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
  • wheelchair housing — housing designed or adapted for a chairbound person
  • whispering gallery — a space or gallery beneath a dome or broad arch in which low sounds produced at any of certain points are clearly audible at certain other distant points.
  • white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
  • wilson's phalarope — a phalarope, Phalaropus tricolor, that breeds in the prairie regions of North America and winters in Argentina and Chile.
  • world championship — an international competition in a particular sport or activity for people all around the world
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