14-letter words containing s, h, a, r, e, f
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- harper's ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
- heart of stone — lack of compassion
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
- house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
- mazar-e-sharif — a city in N Afghanistan, reputed burial place of the caliph Ali; trading, agricultural, and military centre. Pop: 254 000 (2005 est)
- mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
- off the charts — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
- off the shears — (of a sheep) newly shorn
- on the surface — to all appearances
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
- paper-shuffler — a person who has a routine desk job.
- part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
- phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
- platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
- raise the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- redear sunfish — a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis microlophos, of the lower Mississippi valley and southeastern states, having the gill cover margined with scarlet.
- rose of heaven — a plant, Lychnis coeli-rosa, of the pink family, native to the Mediterranean region, having solitary terminal, rose-pink flowers.
- rose of sharon — Also called althea. a widely cultivated shrub or small tree, Hibiscus syriacus, of the mallow family, having showy white, reddish or purplish flowers.
- sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
- safety harness — apparatus with straps to secure sb
- schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
- schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- scotch furnace — ore hearth.
- self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
- self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- self-slaughter — suicide.
- share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
- shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
- sharp-featured — having very clearly defined facial features
- shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
- sickle feather — one of the paired, elongated, sickle-shaped, middle feathers of the tail of the rooster.
- software house — a commercial organization that specializes in the production of computer software packages
- spearfisherman — a person who engages in spearfishing.
- sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
- straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- szekesfehervar — a city in W central Hungary.
- the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
- the-federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- thomas raffles — Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
- turn of phrase — expression, wording
- waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
- welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits