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21-letter words containing s, h, a, n, e

  • sick to one's stomach — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
  • sieve of eratosthenes — a method of obtaining prime numbers by sifting out the composite numbers from the set of natural numbers so that only prime numbers remain.
  • silicon tetrachloride — a colorless, fuming liquid, SiCl 4 , used chiefly for making smoke screens and various derivatives of silicon.
  • single spanish burton — a tackle having a runner as well as the fall supporting the load, giving a mechanical advantage of three, neglecting friction.
  • skeleton at the feast — a person or event that brings gloom or sadness to an occasion of joy or celebration
  • slatwall merchandiser — A slatwall merchandiser is a three-dimensional display unit with grooves cut into its surface into which metal hanging rails can be fixed at various heights.
  • snappy video snapshot — (hardware)   (registered trademark) A frame grabber for the IBM PC designed and marketed by Play, Inc..
  • somatotrophic-hormone — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
  • south pacific current — an ocean current that flows E in the South Pacific Ocean parallel to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
  • sovereign wealth fund — an investment fund created using the financial assets of a national government
  • spherical coordinates — Usually, spherical coordinates. any of three coordinates used to locate a point in space by the length of its radius vector and the angles this vector makes with two perpendicular polar planes.
  • splice the main brace — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
  • stare one in the face — to be glaringly obvious or imminent
  • stations of the cross — a series of 14 crosses, often accompanied by 14 pictures or carvings, arranged in order around the walls of a church, to commemorate 14 supposed stages in Christ's journey to Calvary
  • statistical mechanics — the science that deals with average properties of the molecules, atoms, or elementary particles in random motion in a system of many such particles and relates these properties to the thermodynamic and other macroscopic properties of the system.
  • steal someone's heart — to cause someone to feel love or affection
  • stick in one's throat — to be difficult, or against one's conscience, for one to accept, utter, or believe
  • sunday school teacher — someone who teaches at a Sunday school
  • swim against the tide — to resist prevailing opinion
  • sympathetic vibration — a vibration induced by resonance.
  • symphonie fantastique — a programmatic symphony (1830–31) in five movements by Hector Berlioz.
  • take off one's hat to — a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
  • take one's hat off to — to salute or congratulate
  • take the consequences — to accept the results of one's actions
  • tartarian honeysuckle — an Asian honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica, having fragrant, white to pink flowers.
  • the (norman) conquest — the conquering of England by the Normans under William the Conqueror in 1066
  • the acting profession — actors considered as a group
  • the antipodes islands — a group of small uninhabited islands in the South Pacific, southeast of and belonging to New Zealand. Area: 62 sq km (24 sq miles)
  • the assessment method — a way of providing evidence that students' knowledge and learning match the aims of a course
  • the central provinces — the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec
  • the comrades marathon — an annual long-distance race run every year on the 16th of June from Durban to Pietermaritzburg, a distance of approximately 90 kilometres (56 miles)
  • the corncracker state — a nickname for the state of Kentucky
  • the early renaissance — the period from about 1400 to 1500 in European, esp Italian, painting, sculpture, and architecture, when naturalistic styles and humanist theories were evolved from the study of classical sources, notably by Donatello, Masaccio, and Alberti
  • the executive mansion — the White House
  • the man in the street — If you talk about the man in the street or the man or woman in the street, you mean ordinary people in general.
  • the press association — the national news agency for the United Kingdom and Ireland
  • the probation service — a criminal justice service that is mainly responsible for dealing with offenders by placing them under the supervision of a probation officer
  • the san andreas fault — a geological fault in California
  • the scout association — a worldwide movement for boys or (in some countries) girls, founded as the Boy Scouts in England in 1908 by Lord Baden-Powell with the aim of developing character and responsibility
  • the shipping forecast — a radio broadcast made by the BBC of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles
  • the shit hits the fan — the real trouble begins
  • the stars and stripes — the national flag of the United States of America, consisting of 50 white stars representing the present states on a blue field and seven red and six white horizontal stripes representing the original states
  • the stationery office — (in the UK) the company that supplies the civil service with all its office supplies, machinery, printing and binding, etc
  • the women's land army — a unit of women recruited to do agricultural work in the United Kingdom during World War I and World War II
  • theater of operations — the part of the theater of war, including a combat zone and a communications zone, that is engaged in military operations and their support.
  • thermal decomposition — Thermal decomposition is the process in which a chemical species breaks down when its temperature is increased.
  • thermal power station — a power station in which heat is converted into electricity
  • third-party insurance — insurance that compensates for a loss to a party other than the insured for which the insured is liable.
  • throw one's hat at it — to give up all hope of getting or achieving something
  • throw someone a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
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