15-letter words containing h, a, r
- rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- round character — a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
- roundheadedness — the state of having a round head
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
- ruffle feathers — to cause upset or offence
- run the gantlet — to be punished by means of the gantlet
- russian thistle — a saltwort, Salsola kali tenuifolia, that has narrow, spinelike leaves, a troublesome weed in the central and western U.S.
- rutherford atom — the atom postulated as analogous to the solar system, with electrons revolving around a small, central, positive nucleus that constitutes practically the entire mass of the atom
- saccharomycetes — a collective name for yeasts
- sacred mushroom — any of various hallucinogenic mushrooms, esp species of Psilocybe and Amanita, that have been eaten in rituals in various parts of the world
- 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.
- sanatana dharma — the name used by Hindus for Hinduism
- sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
- saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
- scared shitless — terrified
- scared to death — 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.
- scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
- schiffs-reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
- schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
- schopenhauerian — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
- scrape together — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scratching post — a block or post of wood, usually covered with carpeting, on which a cat can use its claws.
- security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
- security threat — a threat to the security of a country
- self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
- self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
- semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
- separate school — (in Canada) a school for a large religious minority financed by its rates and administered by its own school board but under the authority of the provincial department of education
- serum hepatitis — hepatitis B.
- servo-mechanism — A servo-mechanism is a system or device that provides increased power to operate a control.
- set by the ears — to cause disagreement or commotion
- seven-year itch — scabies.
- shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
- shalmaneser iii — died 824? b.c, Assyrian ruler 859–824?.
- share ownership — the owning of shares in a company
- sharing economy — a system in which people rent, borrow, or share commodities, services, and resources owned by individuals, usually with the aid of online technology, in an effort to save money, cut costs, and reduce waste.
- shark repellent — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
- 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)
- sharp as a tack — intelligent, quick witted
- shearing strain — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.