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16-letter words containing l, a, h, n

  • put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
  • ranelagh gardens — a public garden in Chelsea opened in 1742: a centre for members of fashionable society to meet and promenade. The gardens were closed in 1804
  • rational horizon — the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky.
  • re-establishment — the act or an instance of establishing.
  • red-flannel hash — hash made of ground corned beef, potatoes, and beets
  • residential home — a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as esp the elderly, and also children in care or mentally handicapped adults
  • rhine palatinate — See under Palatinate (def 1).
  • rhinolaryngology — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases of the nose and larynx
  • rhode island red — one of an American breed of chickens having dark reddish-brown feathers and producing brown eggs.
  • rhynchocephalian — belonging or pertaining to the Rhynchocephalia, an order of lizardlike reptiles that are extinct except for the tuatara.
  • rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • richard stallman — (person)   Richard M. Stallman. Founder of the GNU project. He resigned from the AI lab at MIT so he would be free to produce free software which he could then distribute on his own terms. He went on to establish the Free Software Foundation to support the production of free software and ensure its free distribution. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
  • rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • run the gauntlet — a former punishment, chiefly military, in which the offender was made to run between two rows of men who struck at him with switches or weapons as he passed.
  • saddle stitching — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • saint-barthelemy — (Saint Bartholomew; Saint Barts; Saint Barths) a resort island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands, part of the French department of Guadeloupe. 6900; 8 sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
  • saint-ulmo-light — St. Elmo's fire.
  • sandwich islands — the Hawaiian Islands
  • savonarola chair — a chair of the Renaissance having a number of transverse pairs of curved legs, crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
  • schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
  • school librarian — a librarian who works in or is in charge of a school library
  • schouten islands — a group of islands belonging to Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific Oceans, off the N coast of New Guinea.
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • secondary school — a high school or a school of corresponding grade, ranking between a primary school and a college or university.
  • secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
  • self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
  • shark repellents — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
  • shipping channel — a navigational pathway that a ship uses to travel from one place to another
  • shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
  • shoot one's load — (of a man) to ejaculate at orgasm
  • shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
  • shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
  • shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
  • shoulder harness — the part of a seat belt that goes over the shoulder and diagonally across the chest.
  • shugart, alan f. — Alan F. Shugart
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • slap in the face — smack on the cheek
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
  • social gathering — party, get-together
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