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

  • supportive therapy — any treatment, such as the intravenous administration of certain fluids, designed to reinforce or sustain the physiological well-being of a patient
  • survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
  • sympathetic strike — sympathy strike.
  • 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.
  • synthetic geometry — elementary geometry, as distinct from analytic geometry.
  • take sth in stride — If you take a problem or difficulty in stride, you deal with it calmly and easily.
  • take sth literally — If you take something literally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
  • 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 baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the cat's whiskers — a person or thing that is excellent or superior
  • 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 first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
  • the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
  • 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 movie industry — the industry that makes entertainment films or movies
  • the nether regions — the genitals
  • the northern irish — the people who live in or come from Northern Ireland
  • the practicalities — the real facts or details of a situation, as opposed to its theoretical aspects
  • the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • the three wise men — the wise men from the east who came to do homage to the infant Jesus
  • the uncircumcision — the gentiles
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • there's no telling — You use there's no telling to introduce a statement when you want to say that it is impossible to know what will happen in a situation.
  • therese de lisieux — Saint (Marie Françoise Thérèse Martin"the Little Flower") 1873–97, French Carmelite nun.
  • thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
  • thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
  • thirty-second note — a note having 1/32 of the time value of a whole note; demi-semiquaver.
  • thirty-second rest — a rest equal in value to a thirty-second note.
  • 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.
  • throw oneself into — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • to be said for sth — If you say there is a lot to be said for something, you mean you think it has a lot of good qualities or aspects.
  • to raise the alarm — If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
  • transit theodolite — a theodolite having a telescope that can be transited.
  • under the aegis of — guided or protected by
  • university heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • vermilion rockfish — a scarlet-red rockfish, Sebastes miniatus, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America, important as a food fish.
  • warehouse capacity — the amount of storage space in a warehouse
  • 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.
  • western hemisphere — the western part of the terrestrial globe, including North and South America, their islands, and the surrounding waters.
  • 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 iron pyrites — marcasite
  • white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
  • whittaker chambers — Robert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.
  • wilson's phalarope — a phalarope, Phalaropus tricolor, that breeds in the prairie regions of North America and winters in Argentina and Chile.
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