15-letter words containing s, h, a, g, r
- echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
- english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
- english speaker — a person who speaks English as a first, or second mother tongue
- estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
- exchange server — Microsoft Exchange
- fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
- flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
- foster daughter — a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.
- freight charges — the price charged for conveying goods by freight
- french guianese — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
- french-speaking — able to speak French
- garrison finish — the finish of a race, especially a horse race, in which the winner comes from behind to win at the last moment.
- gas thermometer — a device for measuring temperature by observing the change in either pressure or volume of an enclosed gas.
- geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
- george marshall — Alfred, 1842–1924, English economist.
- geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
- german shepherd — one of a breed of large shepherd dogs having a coat ranging in color from gray to brindled, black-and-tan, or black, used especially in police work and as a guide for the blind.
- gestalt therapy — holistic psychotherapy
- giant schnauzer — one of a German breed of large working dogs, resembling a larger and more powerful version of the standard schnauzer, having a pepper-and-salt or pure black, wiry coat, bushy eyebrows and beard, and a docked tail set moderately high, originally developed as a cattle herder but now often used in police work.
- give sth a rest — If someone tells you to give something a rest, they want you to stop doing it because it annoys them or because they think it is harming you.
- glass harmonica — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated, revolving glass bowls, the rims of which are moistened and set in vibration by friction from the fingertips.
- glossographical — relating to glossography
- golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- goodheartedness — The quality of being goodhearted.
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
- graphic display — the way in which line drawings and text are displayed
- grasshopper pie — a custardlike pie, flavored and colored with green crème de menthe and served in a graham-cracker crust.
- graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
- great sanhedrin — Sanhedrin (def 1).
- great south bay — an Atlantic Ocean inlet, between the S shore of Long Island and Fire Island and other barrier islands. 45 miles (72 km) long.
- great-sanhedrin — Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.
- group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
- h g edgar degas — Hilaire Germain Edgar [ee-ler zher-man ed-gar] /iˈlɛr ʒɛrˈmɛ̃ ɛdˈgar/ (Show IPA), 1834–1917, French impressionist painter.
- hamersley range — a mountain range in N Western Australia: iron-ore deposits. Highest peak: 1236 m (4056 ft)
- hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
- heart-searching — a thorough examination of one's feelings and motives; a self-examination of one's conscience.
- heliacal rising — rising of a celestial object at approximately the same time as the rising of the sun
- hemangiosarcoma — A fast-growing, highly invasive variety of cancer, a sarcoma arising from the lining of blood vessels, occurring almost exclusively in dogs and rarely in cats.
- hierogrammatist — a writer of hierograms, hierogrammate
- historiographer — a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.
- historiographic — the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- hygroscopically — In a hygroscopic way.
- hyperaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- in (the) grease — fat and ready to be killed
- inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
- labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)