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16-letter words containing h, e, i, r, s

  • the scotch-irish — people of Scotch-Irish descent
  • the sex industry — a commercial sector that employs sex workers in prostitution, pornography, etc.
  • the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
  • the silver state — the nickname of the US state of Nevada, which comes from the large amount of silver discovered and mined there
  • the subsidiariat — a collective term for the news sources that would not survive without being subsidized directly (by a government, etc), or indirectly (through sharing a parent company with another more profitable revenue source)
  • the swiss-french — people from French-speaking Switzerland
  • the tamil tigers — a Sri Lankan Tamil separatist movement founded in the early 1970s that sought to establish an independent Tamil homeland (Tamil Eelam) in northern Sri Lanka; they waged a military campaign until defeated in 2009 by the Sri Lankan army
  • the time is ripe — If you say the time is ripe, you mean that a suitable time has arrived for something to be done.
  • the war-disabled — those people who have been disabled by war
  • theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
  • thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
  • thermoanesthesia — thermanesthesia.
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thioarsenic acid — any of three hypothetical acids, H3AsS4, HAsS3, and H4As2S7, known only in the forms of their salts
  • this-worldliness — concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.
  • thought disorder — disorganized speech, as flight of ideas or loosening of associations, thought to reflect disorganized thinking and occurring as a symptom of some types of mental illness, as manic disorder or schizophrenia.
  • three-piece suit — men's formal outfit
  • thrilled to bits — If someone is thrilled, they are extremely pleased about something.
  • thrombophlebitis — the presence of a thrombus in a vein accompanied by inflammation of the vessel wall.
  • to coin a phrase — You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
  • to dish the dirt — If someone dishes the dirt on you, they say bad things about you, without worrying if they are true or not, or if they will damage your reputation.
  • topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
  • torrijos herrera — Omar [aw-mahr] /ɔˈmɑr/ (Show IPA), 1929–81, Panamanian military and political leader: chief of state 1972–78.
  • transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
  • tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
  • turkish crescent — crescent (def 6).
  • un-reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
  • uncharacteristic — Also, characteristical. pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.
  • uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • undernourishment — If someone is suffering from undernourishment, they have poor health because they are not eating enough food or are eating the wrong kind of food.
  • union membership — members of a trade union
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • visiting teacher — a teacher in a public school system, assigned to give home instruction to sick or disabled pupils.
  • ward christensen — (person)   The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmed mainframes for IBM. Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on 1978-02-16 in Chicago. It ran on an S-100 computer with 64k RAM and two single-sided 8" 250kB diskettes.
  • washing-up water — water used for washing dishes
  • weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
  • weatherstripping — A piece of weatherstrip material.
  • western sandwich — a sandwich with a western omelet for a filling.
  • whirling dervish — a member of a Turkish order of dervishes, or Sufis, whose ritual consists in part of a highly stylized whirling dance.
  • white rhinoceros — an African rhinoceros, Diceros simus, having two horns on the nose
  • white wood aster — a composite plant, Aster divaricatus, of North America, having flat-topped clusters of white ray flowers and growing in dry woods.
  • whited sepulcher — an evil person who feigns goodness; hypocrite. Matt. 23:27.
  • whited sepulchre — hypocrite
  • whole nine yards — a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
  • wiener schnitzel — Viennese Cookery. a breaded veal cutlet, variously seasoned or garnished.
  • winchester rifle — a type of magazine rifle, first made in about 1866.
  • windshield wiper — an electrically or pneumatically operated device consisting of a squeegee connected to a mechanical arm designed to wipe off rain, snow, etc., from a windshield or rear window.
  • with due respect — with deserved esteem
  • without recourse — a qualified endorsement on such a negotiable instrument, by which the endorser protects himself or herself from liability to subsequent holders
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