16-letter words containing h, i, g, e, s
- shipping channel — a navigational pathway that a ship uses to travel from one place to another
- shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
- shit-eating grin — a sly, knowing, or self-satisfied grin
- shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
- 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
- short sweetening — sugar.
- shortsightedness — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- 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.
- sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
- sling one's hook — to leave
- smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
- social gathering — party, get-together
- solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
- something fierce — desperately, intensely
- sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
- spaghetti squash — a variety of a widely cultivated squash, Cucurbita pepo, having edible flesh in the form of spaghettilike strands.
- 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.
- spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
- spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
- 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.
- squatter's right — a claim to real property, especially public land, that may be granted to a person who has openly possessed and continuously occupied it without legal authority for a prescribed period of years.
- 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.
- static discharge — Static discharge is the release of static electricity when two objects touch each other.
- steamboat gothic — a florid architectural style suggesting the gingerbread-decorated construction of river boats of the Victorian period.
- 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.
- stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
- straight shooter — a person who is forthright and upstanding in behavior.
- straight whiskey — pure, unblended whiskey of 80 to 110 proof.
- strain hardening — a process in which a metal is permanently deformed in order to increase its resistance to further deformation
- streak lightning — lightning in which there is a sudden flash from what appears to be a single main line
- string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
- student teaching — the act of teaching in a school for a limited period under supervision as part of a course to qualify as a teacher
- sulu archipelago — an island group in the SW Philippines, separating the Sulawesi Sea from the Sulu Sea. 1086 sq. mi. (2813 sq. km). Capital: Jolo.
- summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
- summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
- superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
- telescopic sight — a telescope mounted on a rifle, etc, used for sighting
- tensile strength — the resistance of a material to longitudinal stress, measured by the minimum amount of longitudinal stress required to rupture the material.
- the missing link — a hypothetical extinct animal or animal group, formerly thought to be intermediate between the anthropoid apes and man
- the red brigades — a group of urban guerrillas, based in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–78) in 1978
- the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
- 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
- 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.