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18-letter words containing h, e, a, t, s, o

  • 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.
  • shorthand notebook — a notebook used by a shorthand writer
  • 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.
  • shugart technology — Seagate Technology
  • shunting operation — an operation in which rail coaches are manoeuvred
  • sign of the zodiac — one of the twelve constellations along the path of the ecliptic.
  • sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
  • sit at the feet of — to be an admiring disciple of
  • sit on one's hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • slow on the uptake — slow to understand or learn
  • sociotechnological — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and technological factors.
  • sodium thiocyanate — a white powder or colorless, deliquescent crystals, NaSCN, used chiefly in organic synthesis and in medicine in the treatment of hypertension.
  • sodium thiosulfate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, Na 2 S 2 O 3 ⋅5H 2 O, used as a bleach and in photography as a fixing agent.
  • soft touch sealing — Soft touch sealing is a copolymer seal for a tank, with characteristics designed for softness, used instead of a metal seal to help avoid fire when sparks are generated.
  • solid-fuel heating — heating that uses solid fuel, such as coal or coke
  • something to spare — a surplus of something
  • sound and the fury — a novel (1929) by William Faulkner.
  • sound spectrograph — an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.
  • south saskatchewan — a river in W Canada, flowing E from S Alberta and joining the North Saskatchewan River to form the Saskatchewan River. 865 miles (1392 km) long.
  • southeast by south — a point on the compass 11°15′ south of southeast. Abbreviation: SEbS.
  • southern cameroons — German Kamerun. a region in W Africa: a German protectorate 1884–1919; divided in 1919 into British and French mandates.
  • southern rhodesian — a former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe (def 1).
  • sow dragon's teeth — to take some action that is intended to prevent strife or trouble but that actually brings it about
  • spaghetti junction — an interchange, usually between motorways, in which there are a large number of underpasses and overpasses and intersecting roads used by a large volume of high-speed traffic
  • 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.
  • spotted flycatcher — a European woodland songbird, Muscicapa striata, with a greyish-brown streaked plumage: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers)
  • state of the union — A State of the Union speech or address is a speech, given once a year, in which the president of the United States talks about the current political issues that affect the country as a whole and about his plans for the year ahead.
  • stinking chamomile — mayweed.
  • 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.
  • stomach sweetbread — sweetbread (def 1).
  • store launch event — A store launch event is a special event, which publicizes the opening of a new store and at which discounts and free samples may be offered.
  • 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
  • sutton-in-ashfield — a market town in N central England, in W Nottinghamshire. Pop: 41 951 (2001)
  • symphony orchestra — a large orchestra composed of wind, string, and percussion instruments and organized to perform symphonic compositions.
  • systematic phoneme — a phonological unit in generative phonology representing an underlying form that takes into account the relationship between phonological patterns and morphological variation, as the unit underlying the second vowel in both derive and derivative.
  • take a shine to sb — If you say that someone has taken a shine to another person, you mean that he or she liked them very much at their first meeting.
  • take one's chances — to accept the uncertain outcome as of a course of action
  • take the wraps off — to reveal
  • tan someone's hide — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
  • temporary hardness — hardness of water due to the presence of magnesium and calcium hydrogencarbonates, which can be precipitated as carbonates by boiling
  • 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 damage is done — If you say 'the damage is done', you mean that it is too late now to prevent the harmful effects of something that has already happened.
  • the final solution — the code name used by the Nazis to refer to the plan of mass murder of the Jews
  • the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
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