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15-letter words containing k, l, e, s, h

  • saint-john-lakeHenry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
  • schrecklichkeit — frightfulness; horror.
  • shark repellent — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
  • sharm al-sheikh — a village and military post in E Egypt, on the Sinai Peninsula, guarding the Gulf of Suez.
  • sharm el-sheikh — a city in Egypt on the southern point of the Sinai Peninsula on the Red Sea; a major holiday resort. Pop: 73 000 (2015 est)
  • 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.
  • sherlock holmes — a fictitious British detective with great powers of deduction, the main character in many stories by A. Conan Doyle
  • shockwave flash — flash
  • sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
  • skylight filter — a very slightly pink filter that absorbs ultraviolet light and reduces haze and excessive blueness
  • south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
  • south salt lake — a town in N Utah.
  • strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the tall blacks — the international basketball team of New Zealand
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
  • turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
  • unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
  • universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
  • western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
  • yorkshire dales — the valleys of the rivers flowing from the Pennines in W Yorkshire: chiefly Ribblesdale, Swaledale, Nidderdale, Wharfedale, and Wensleydale; tourist area
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