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

  • showbiz reporter — a journalist who writes about the entertainment industry
  • showcase project — a project designed to attract attention and show off the abilities of the people involved in it
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • shut the door on — to refuse to think about
  • shutter priority — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.
  • shutter-priority — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.
  • shuttle armature — a simple H-shaped armature used in small direct-current motors
  • siberian mammoth — a shaggy-coated mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, that lived in cold regions across Eurasia and North America during the Ice Age, known from fossils, cave paintings, and well-preserved frozen carcasses.
  • silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
  • sir herbert read — George, 1733–98, American political leader: served in the Continental Congress 1774–77.
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • 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
  • sole stockholder — the only person who holds shares in a business
  • somehow or other — in an undetermined way
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • sooty shearwater — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • south charleston — a city in W West Virginia.
  • southerly buster — a sudden violent cold wind on the SE coast of Australia causing a rapid drop in temperature
  • southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spectrochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical analysis of substances by means of the spectra of light they absorb or emit.
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • speech therapist — sb who treats speaking disorders
  • sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • 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.
  • spiritual healer — a faith healer
  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
  • spreader-ditcher — a machine for shaping and cleaning roadbeds and ditches and for freeing tracks of ice and snow by plowing and digging.
  • 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.
  • st. clair shores — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • st. john's-bread — carob (def 2).
  • st. lucie cherry — mahaleb.
  • stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • 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.
  • state of the art — the latest and most sophisticated or advanced stage of a technology, art, or science.
  • state-of-the-art — the latest and most sophisticated or advanced stage of a technology, art, or science.
  • static character — a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop.
  • static discharge — Static discharge is the release of static electricity when two objects touch each other.
  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
  • steric hindrance — the prevention or retardation of inter- or intramolecular interactions as a result of the spatial structure of a molecule.
  • 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.
  • 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
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