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15-letter words containing s, h, a, r, e, f

  • freshwater drum — an edible drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, of the fresh waters of North and Central America, sometimes reaching a weight of 60 pounds (27 kg).
  • friedrichshafen — a city in Baden-Württemberg, S Germany, on Lake Constance.
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
  • graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
  • hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
  • have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
  • heart of hearts — the depths of one's conscience or emotions
  • heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
  • house of prayer — house of God.
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
  • knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
  • oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
  • pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
  • potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
  • propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
  • ray-finned fish — any of various bony fishes of the subclass Actinopterygii, having strong slender rays, excluding the coelacanth and lungfish.
  • ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
  • refreshment bar — a bar or stall that offers a variety of drinks for sale
  • research fellow — A research fellow is a member of an academic institution whose job is to do research.
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • right of search — the privilege of a nation at war to search neutral ships on the high seas for contraband or other matter, carried in violation of neutrality, that may subject the ship to seizure.
  • ruffle feathers — to cause upset or offence
  • saffian leather — leather made of sheepskin or goatskin tanned with sumac and usually dyed a bright color
  • schiffs-reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • 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.
  • short of breath — If you are short of breath, you find it difficult to breathe properly, for example because you are ill. You can also say that someone suffers from shortness of breath.
  • soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
  • software method — Software Methodology
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • specific charge — the ratio of the charge on a particle to the mass of the particle.
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • start of header — (character)   (SOH) mnemonic for ASCII 1.
  • strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
  • theory of games — game theory.
  • towers of hanoi — (games)   A classic computer science problem, invented by Edouard Lucas in 1883, often used as an example of recursion. "In the great temple at Benares, says he, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee. On one of these needles, at the creation, God placed sixty-four discs of pure gold, the largest disc resting on the brass plate, and the others getting smaller and smaller up to the top one. This is the Tower of Bramah. Day and night unceasingly the priests transfer the discs from one diamond needle to another according to the fixed and immutable laws of Bramah, which require that the priest on duty must not move more than one disc at a time and that he must place this disc on a needle so that there is no smaller disc below it. When the sixty-four discs shall have been thus transferred from the needle on which at the creation God placed them to one of the other needles, tower, temple, and Brahmins alike will crumble into dust, and with a thunderclap the world will vanish." The recursive solution is: Solve for n-1 discs recursively, then move the remaining largest disc to the free needle. Note that there is also a non-recursive solution: On odd-numbered moves, move the smallest sized disk clockwise. On even-numbered moves, make the single other move which is possible.
  • trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
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