15-letter words containing o, t, h, e, r, i
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
- schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
- self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
- 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.
- serve one right — to act as a servant.
- service history — information concerning all of a car's services (ie overhauls, checks, or repairs)
- shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
- 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.
- shock resistant — not affected by impact
- 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.
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- shot in the arm — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- social heritage — the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.
- socratic method — the use of questions, as employed by Socrates, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil, or to elicit admissions, as from an opponent, tending to establish a proposition.
- sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
- soldier's heart — cardiac neurosis.
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- south yorkshire — a metropolitan county in N England. 603 sq. mi. (1561 sq. km).
- 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.
- spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
- sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
- spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
- spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
- 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.
- st. christopher — Saint, died a.d. c250, Christian martyr.
- starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
- start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
- stereochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the determination of the relative positions in space of the atoms or groups of atoms in a compound and with the effects of these positions on the properties of the compound.
- stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- 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.