16-letter words containing h, e, n, i, s, l
- rhode island red — one of an American breed of chickens having dark reddish-brown feathers and producing brown eggs.
- saddle stitching — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
- saint-barthelemy — (Saint Bartholomew; Saint Barts; Saint Barths) a resort island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands, part of the French department of Guadeloupe. 6900; 8 sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
- schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
- schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
- school inspector — an official whose job is to inspect schools and to report on their quality and conditions
- schouten islands — a group of islands belonging to Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific Oceans, off the N coast of New Guinea.
- scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
- second childhood — senility; dotage.
- secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
- self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- sensible horizon — the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky.
- sheltering trust — a trust that provides a fund for a beneficiary, as a minor, with the title vested so that the fund or its income cannot be claimed by others, as creditors of the beneficiary.
- ship of the line — a former sailing warship armed powerfully enough to serve in the line of battle, usually having cannons ranged along two or more decks; battleship.
- shipping channel — a navigational pathway that a ship uses to travel from one place to another
- shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
- shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
- shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
- shopping complex — a shopping centre
- shopping trolley — A shopping trolley is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop.
- shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
- shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
- shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
- simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
- slap in the face — smack on the cheek
- sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
- sling one's hook — to leave
- smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
- social gathering — party, get-together
- sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
- solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
- south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- spanish bluebell — a bulbous plant, Endymion hispanicus, of the lily family, native to Spain and Portugal, having blue, white, or pink, bell-shaped flowers.
- spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
- spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
- special handling — (in the U.S. Postal Service) the handling of third- and fourth-class mail as first-class upon the payment of a fee.
- spin the platter — a game in which one member of a group spins a platter on its edge and a designated member must catch it before it falls or pay a forfeit.
- splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
- spring ephemeral — any of various woodland wildflowers that appear above ground in early spring, flower and fruit, and die in a short two-month period.
- standard english — the English language in its most widely accepted form, as written and spoken by educated people in both formal and informal contexts, having universal currency while incorporating regional differences.
- stannic chloride — a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl 4 , soluble in water and alcohol, that converts with water to a crystalline solid: used for electrically conductive and electroluminescent coatings and in ceramics.
- stannic sulphide — an insoluble solid compound of tin usually existing as golden crystals or as a yellowish-brown powder: used as a pigment. Formula: SnS2
- stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
- sterling heights — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- sth rings a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
- stilton (cheese) — a rich, crumbly cheese with veins of blue-green mold
- streak lightning — lightning in which there is a sudden flash from what appears to be a single main line
- sulfarsphenamine — a yellow, water-soluble, arsenic-containing powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 As 2 N 2 Na 2 O 8 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of syphilis.
- summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening