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15-letter words containing h, i, s, l, o, r

  • photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • plain of sharon — a plain in W Israel, between the Mediterranean and the hills of Samaria, extending from Haifa to Tel Aviv
  • poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
  • polish corridor — a strip of land near the mouth of the Vistula River: formerly separated Germany from East Prussia; given to Poland in the Treaty of Versailles 1919 to provide it with access to the Baltic.
  • posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
  • psychographical — relating to psychographics
  • pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
  • quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • relative to sth — Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
  • religious house — a convent or monastery.
  • religious right — US right-wing Christian movement
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • rochester hills — city in SE Mich., near Detroit: pop. 69,000
  • ronne ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in SW Weddell Sea, bordered by Ellsworth Land on the NW and Berkner Island on the E.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • sailor's choice — any of various small percoid fishes of American coastal regions of the Atlantic, esp the grunt Haemulon parra and the pinfish
  • sailor's-choice — any of several fishes living in waters along the Atlantic coast of the U.S., especially a pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, ranging from Massachusetts to Texas, and a grunt, Haemulon parrai, ranging from Florida to Brazil.
  • saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
  • schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
  • school district — A school district is an area which includes all the schools that are situated within that area and are governed by a particular authority.
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • self-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
  • self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
  • semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
  • shelikof strait — a strait between the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island, in S Alaska. 130 miles (209 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
  • shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
  • silver chloride — a white, granular, water-insoluble powder, AgCl, that darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and in the making of antiseptic silver preparations.
  • sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
  • social heritage — the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.
  • sociohistorical — involving social and historical elements
  • sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • sodium chloride — salt1 (def 1).
  • soldier's heart — cardiac neurosis.
  • south australia — a state in S Australia. 380,070 sq. mi. (984,380 sq. km). Capital: Adelaide.
  • southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
  • southern lights — aurora australis.
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
  • sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
  • sulphur dioxide — a colourless soluble pungent gas produced by burning sulphur. It is both an oxidizing and a reducing agent and is used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, the preservation of a wide range of foodstuffs (E220), bleaching, and disinfecting. Formula: SO2
  • sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
  • summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
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