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15-letter words containing o, n, t, e, r, h

  • right-of-centre — You can describe a person or political party as right-of-centre if they have political views which are closer to capitalism and conservatism than to socialism but which are not very extreme.
  • riverworthiness — (of a boat) the quality or state of being riverworthy
  • roche moutonnee — a rounded, glacially eroded rock outcrop, usually one of a group, resembling a sheep's back.
  • rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
  • roentgenography — roentgenogram.
  • roll in the hay — a document of paper, parchment, or the like, that is or may be rolled up, as for storing; scroll.
  • rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
  • rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
  • round character — a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
  • round the twist — mad; eccentric
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • run of the mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
  • run-of-the-mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
  • run-of-the-mine — of or relating to ore or coal that is crude, ungraded, etc.
  • sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
  • scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
  • schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
  • self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
  • serve one right — to act as a servant.
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • shock resistant — not affected by impact
  • shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
  • shock-resistant — strong or resilient enough to sustain minor impacts without damage to the internal mechanism: a shock-resistant watch.
  • shopping center — a group of stores within a single architectural plan, supplying most of the basic shopping needs, especially in suburban areas.
  • shopping centre — A shopping centre is a specially built area containing a lot of different shops.
  • short and sweet — having little length; not long.
  • shorthand notes — notes written in shorthand
  • shot in the arm — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
  • sojourner truth — Sojourner [soh-jur-ner,, soh-jur-ner] /ˈsoʊ dʒɜr nər,, soʊˈdʒɜr nər/ (Show IPA), (Isabella Van Wagener) 1797?–1883, U.S. abolitionist, orator, and women's-rights advocate, born a slave.
  • 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 gothic — a literary genre depicting life in the southern US and featuring grotesque themes and imagery
  • southern lights — aurora australis.
  • southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
  • sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
  • start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
  • stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
  • stone the crows — an expression of surprise, dismay, etc
  • stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • string together — arrange coherently
  • 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
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • take one's hour — to do something in a leisurely manner
  • tear one's hair — the act of tearing.
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