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15-letter words containing l, e, t, i, s, h

  • south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
  • 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 lights — aurora australis.
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • spill the beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
  • spin the bottle — a game in which someone spins a bottle and receives a kiss from the person at whom the bottle points on coming to rest.
  • squelch circuit — a circuit which disconnects a receiver in order to eliminate output noise when no signal or an extremely weak signal is received
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
  • stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
  • street lighting — the provision of lighting at night in public places to illuminate the streets
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
  • strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
  • sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the classifieds — a section of classified advertising in a publication
  • the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
  • the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
  • the everlasting — God
  • the lost tribes — the ten tribes deported from the N kingdom of Israel in 721 bc and believed never to have returned to Palestine
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
  • the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
  • the square mile — the area in central London in which the United Kingdom's major financial business is transacted
  • thing-in-itself — reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. Compare noumenon (def 3).
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • thromboembolism — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • tilsit (cheese) — a semihard, mild to sharp cheese with many small holes, made from cow's milk
  • track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
  • training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
  • troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
  • two-thirds rule — a former rule in the Democratic Party, effective 1832–1936, requiring a vote of at least two thirds of its national convention delegates to nominate a presidential and vice-presidential candidate.
  • unaesthetically — offensive to the aesthetic sense; lacking in beauty or sensory appeal; unpleasant, as an object, design, arrangement, etc.: an unaesthetic combination of colors.
  • unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
  • venetian school — any of various groups of artists identified with Venice throughout the history of Italian art but most notably the painters of the 18th century, as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi, and Antonio Canaletto.
  • westphalian ham — a hard German ham with a distinctive flavor derived from being smoked over beechwood and juniper.
  • whistle-blowing — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • white corpuscle — white blood cell.
  • wilhelm meister — a novel (1795–1829) by Goethe.
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
  • wish fulfilment — (in Freudian psychology) any successful attempt to fulfil a wish stemming from the unconscious mind, whether in fact, in fantasy, or by such disguised means as sublimation
  • wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent
  • yellow goatfish — a schooling goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Panama.
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