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15-letter words containing h, u, i

  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
  • shroud of turin — a linen cloth kept in the Cathedral of Turin, Italy, since the late 1500s that bears a faint life-size human image venerated by some as the imprint of the dead body of Jesus.
  • shunting engine — switch engine.
  • shuttle service — transport going back and forth
  • sinkiang uighur — an autonomous region in NW China, bordering Tibet, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Pakistan, and India: formerly a province. 635,830 sq. mi. (1,646,800 sq. km). Capital: Ürümqi.
  • sir arthur john — Sir (Arthur) John, 1904–2000, English actor and director.
  • snubfin dolphin — Australian dolphin with a small dorsal fin
  • 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).
  • sodium ethylate — a white, hygroscopic powder, C 2 H 5 ONa, that is decomposed by water into sodium hydroxide and alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
  • sound-and-light — combining sound effects or music with unusual lighting displays: to promote a product with a spectacular sound-and-light presentation.
  • south australia — a state in S Australia. 380,070 sq. mi. (984,380 sq. km). Capital: Adelaide.
  • south caucasian — a family of languages including Georgian, Mingrelian, and others that are spoken on the south slopes of the Caucasus and adjacent areas.
  • south china sea — a part of the W Pacific, bounded by SE China, Vietnam, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and the Philippines.
  • south kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
  • south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
  • south yorkshire — a metropolitan county in N England. 603 sq. mi. (1561 sq. km).
  • southeast asian — the countries and land area of Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
  • 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 gothic — a literary genre depicting life in the southern US and featuring grotesque themes and imagery
  • southern lights — aurora australis.
  • southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
  • spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
  • spinach-rhubarb — an Ethiopian plant, Rumex abyssinicus, of the buckwheat family, having leaves that are sometimes used as spinach and leafstalks sometimes used as rhubarb.
  • spotted sunfish — a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.
  • squelch circuit — a circuit which disconnects a receiver in order to eliminate output noise when no signal or an extremely weak signal is received
  • stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
  • sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • succinylcholine — a drug, C14H30N2O4, used primarily as a muscle relaxant, produced by the esterization of succinic acid with choline
  • suicide machine — a device designed to permit a terminally ill person to commit suicide, as by the automatic injection of a lethal drug.
  • 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
  • sulphur springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • 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 diarrhea — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
  • t'ai chi ch'uan — a Chinese martial art and form of stylized, meditative exercise, characterized by methodically slow circular and stretching movements and positions of bodily balance.
  • take issue with — disagree with
  • the crucifixion — the crucifying of Christ at Calvary, regarded by Christians as the culminating redemptive act of his ministry
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
  • the jury is out — If you say that the jury is out or that the jury is still out on a particular subject, you mean that people in general have still not made a decision or formed an opinion about that subject.
  • the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • the midas touch — ability to make money
  • the next minute — You use the expression the next minute or expressions such as 'one minute he was there, the next he was gone' to emphasize that something happens suddenly.
  • the public weal — the public good; the good of society
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