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16-letter words containing o, h, n

  • russian orthodox — of or relating to the Russian Orthodox Church
  • saccharification — to convert (starch) into sugar.
  • saint-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
  • saint-john-night — Midsummer Eve.
  • saint-ulmo-light — St. Elmo's fire.
  • savannah sparrow — a North American sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis, having brown and white plumage with a yellow stripe over each eye.
  • 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.
  • sawn-off shotgun — A sawn-off shotgun is a shotgun on which the barrel has been cut short. Guns like this are often used by criminals because they can be easily hidden.
  • scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
  • schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
  • schneider trophy — a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931
  • school inspector — an official whose job is to inspect schools and to report on their quality and conditions
  • 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.
  • second childhood — senility; dotage.
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • 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.
  • secondhand smoke — smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe that is involuntarily inhaled, especially by nonsmokers.
  • 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.
  • semi-hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
  • 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.
  • sex-and-shopping — (of a novel) belonging to a genre of novel in which the central character, a woman, has a number of sexual encounters, and the author mentions the name of many up-market products
  • shake one's head — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shaker and mover — mover and shaker
  • share and enjoy! — 1. Commonly found at the end of software release announcements and README files, this phrase indicates allegiance to the hacker ethic of free information sharing (see hacker ethic). 2. The motto of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (the ultimate gaggle of incompetent suits) in Douglas Adams's "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The irony of using this as a cultural recognition signal appeals to freeware hackers.
  • shared ownership — (in Britain) a form of house purchase whereby the purchaser buys a proportion of the dwelling, usually from a local authority or housing association, and rents the rest
  • sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
  • 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.
  • shipping company — business that sends goods overseas
  • shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
  • 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
  • short sweetening — sugar.
  • shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
  • shorthand typing — shorthand and typing
  • shorthand typist — A shorthand typist is a person who types and writes shorthand, usually in an office.
  • shorthand writer — a person trained to write in shorthand
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