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16-letter words containing l, e, n, s, h, o

  • secondary school — a high school or a school of corresponding grade, ranking between a primary school and a college or university.
  • selenomorphology — the study of the lunar surface and landscape
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • sensible horizon — the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky.
  • settlement house — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
  • settlement-house — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
  • ship of the line — a former sailing warship armed powerfully enough to serve in the line of battle, usually having cannons ranged along two or more decks; battleship.
  • shoot one's bolt — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
  • 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 complex — a shopping centre
  • shopping trolley — A shopping trolley is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop.
  • 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.
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • show one's heels — to run away
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • shuttle movement — the movement of a component from one place to another and back to its original position
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • sling one's hook — to leave
  • smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
  • south charleston — a city in W West Virginia.
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
  • splanchnopleural — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • spongy-mesophyll — the lower layer of the ground tissue of a leaf, characteristically containing irregularly shaped cells with relatively few chloroplasts and large intercellular spaces.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • stilton (cheese) — a rich, crumbly cheese with veins of blue-green mold
  • synchronous idle — (character)   (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
  • take one's heels — the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
  • technical school — college of further and vocational education
  • the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the lion's share — the largest portion
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the renosterveld — an area of high altitude in SW South Africa, having fertile ground
  • the south island — the largest island of New Zealand, separated from the North Island by the Cook Strait. Pop: 1 048 200 (2013 est). Area: 153 947 sq km (59 439 sq miles)
  • the union school — a historic building located at 516-518 Bethlehem Pike in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Built in 1773, the Union School was one of the earliest public schools in Pennsylvania, and the first that did not discriminate based on social position or religious preference
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
  • thermal neutrons — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
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