18-letter words containing r, e, h, a, s, l
- schofield barracks — a town on central Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- scholarship holder — a person who, because of academic merit, receives financial aid for their studies
- school certificate — (in England and Wales between 1917 and 1951 and currently in New Zealand) a certificate awarded to school pupils who pass a public examination: the equivalent of GCSE
- schwarz inequality — Also called Cauchy's inequality. the theorem that the inner product of two vectors is less than or equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors.
- second-hand dealer — a person who deals in second-hand things, such as cars, or furniture
- secondary syphilis — the second stage of syphilis, characterized by eruptions of the skin and mucous membrane.
- september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
- shatterproof glass — glass designed to resist shattering
- shepherd satellite — a small moon orbiting near a planetary ring, whose gravitational pull helps confine the ring and the ring's extent.
- short-tailed shrew — a grayish-black shrew, Blarina brevicauda, common in eastern North America, that has a tail less than half the length of the body.
- shugart technology — Seagate Technology
- sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
- sole-charge school — a rural school with only one teacher
- specialist teacher — a teacher with expertise in working with children with special educational needs, such as dyslexia
- spectroheliography — the process of obtaining an image of the sun in light of a particular wavelength, such as calcium or hydrogen, showing the distribution of the element over the surface and in the solar atmosphere, using a spectroheliograph
- spherical geometry — the branch of geometry that deals with figures on spherical surfaces.
- spherical triangle — a triangle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
- spotted flycatcher — a European woodland songbird, Muscicapa striata, with a greyish-brown streaked plumage: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers)
- stem-cell research — research that is carried out on stem cells for use in medicine
- stoichiometrically — of or relating to stoichiometry.
- stokely carmichael — Hoagland Howard [hohg-luh nd] /ˈhoʊg lənd/ (Show IPA), ("Hoagy") 1899–1981, U.S. songwriter and musician.
- store launch event — A store launch event is a special event, which publicizes the opening of a new store and at which discounts and free samples may be offered.
- strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
- study hall teacher — a teacher who supervises or helps students during a period of time or lesson used for studying
- sulfuric anhydride — sulfur trioxide.
- survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
- take sth literally — If you take something literally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
- technical reserves — Technical reserves are amounts of money set aside to pay for underwriting liabilities.
- technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- the class struggle — the continual conflict between the capitalist and working classes for economic and political power
- the coast is clear — If you say that the coast is clear, you mean that there is nobody around to see you or catch you.
- the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
- the lords temporal — (in Britain) peers other than bishops in their capacity as members of the House of Lords
- the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
- the practicalities — the real facts or details of a situation, as opposed to its theoretical aspects
- the same old story — the familiar or regular course of events
- the scarlet letter — a novel (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
- the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
- to clear the decks — If you clear the decks, you get ready to start something new by finishing any work that has to be done or getting rid of any problems that are in the way.
- to learn the ropes — If you are learning the ropes, you are learning how a particular task or job is done.
- to raise the alarm — If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
- transit theodolite — a theodolite having a telescope that can be transited.
- traveller's cheque — Traveller's cheques are cheques that you buy at a bank and take with you when you travel, for example so that you can exchange them for the currency of the country that you are in.
- ur of the chaldees — the city where Abraham was born, sometimes identified with the Sumerian city of Ur. Gen. 11:28, 31; 15:7; Neh. 9:7.
- wheelchair housing — housing designed or adapted for a chairbound person
- whispering gallery — a space or gallery beneath a dome or broad arch in which low sounds produced at any of certain points are clearly audible at certain other distant points.
- wilson's phalarope — a phalarope, Phalaropus tricolor, that breeds in the prairie regions of North America and winters in Argentina and Chile.