15-letter words containing l, h, e, r
- rochester hills — city in SE Mich., near Detroit: pop. 69,000
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- roll in the hay — a document of paper, parchment, or the like, that is or may be rolled up, as for storing; scroll.
- rolle's theorem — the theorem that a differentiable function having equal values at the endpoints of an interval has a derivative equal to zero at some point in the interval.
- rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
- rollmop herring — a herring fillet rolled, usually around onion slices, and pickled in spiced vinegar
- ronne ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in SW Weddell Sea, bordered by Ellsworth Land on the NW and Berkner Island on the E.
- rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
- round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- ruffle feathers — to cause upset or offence
- run of the mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
- run the gantlet — to be punished by means of the gantlet
- run-of-the-mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
- running english — the giving of English or spin to the cue ball to enable it to bounce in the direction of a certain angle. Compare reverse English (def 1).
- russian thistle — a saltwort, Salsola kali tenuifolia, that has narrow, spinelike leaves, a troublesome weed in the central and western U.S.
- saffian leather — leather made of sheepskin or goatskin tanned with sumac and usually dyed a bright color
- saguia el hamra — the N part of Western Sahara.
- sailor's choice — any of various small percoid fishes of American coastal regions of the Atlantic, esp the grunt Haemulon parra and the pinfish
- sailor's-choice — any of several fishes living in waters along the Atlantic coast of the U.S., especially a pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, ranging from Massachusetts to Texas, and a grunt, Haemulon parrai, ranging from Florida to Brazil.
- scared shitless — terrified
- scarlet lychnis — a plant, Lychnis chalcedonica, of the pink family, having scarlet or sometimes white flowers, the arrangement and shape of the petals resembling a Maltese cross.
- scheele's green — copper arsenite used as a pigment, especially in paints.
- schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
- schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
- schrecklichkeit — frightfulness; horror.
- self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
- self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
- self-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
- self-enrichment — an act of enriching.
- self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
- semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- separate school — (in Canada) a school for a large religious minority financed by its rates and administered by its own school board but under the authority of the provincial department of education
- shalmaneser iii — died 824? b.c, Assyrian ruler 859–824?.
- 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)
- she'll be right — that's all right; not to worry
- 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
- ship's articles — a type of contract by which sailors agree to the conditions, payment, etc, for the ship in which they are going to work
- shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)
- short-eared owl — a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
- shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
- shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
- shoulder season — a travel season between peak and off-peak seasons, especially spring and fall, when fares tend to be relatively low.
- shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
- shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
- shutter release — a button or similar device used to actuate a camera shutter.