15-letter words containing s, h, e, a, r, l
- orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
- organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
- pass-the-parcel — a children's game in which a parcel with lots of wrappings is passed round while music plays; each time the music stops the person holding the parcel takes a layer of wrapping off
- passport holder — a person who has a passport
- penshurst place — a 14th-century mansion near Tunbridge Wells in Kent: birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney; gardens laid out from 1560
- personal growth — development as an individual
- phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
- physical memory — (memory management) The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.
- propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
- psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- raise the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
- relative to sth — Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
- release therapy — psychotherapy in which the patient finds emotional release in the expression of hostilities and emotional conflicts.
- research fellow — A research fellow is a member of an academic institution whose job is to do research.
- rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- ruffle feathers — to cause upset or offence
- russian thistle — a saltwort, Salsola kali tenuifolia, that has narrow, spinelike leaves, a troublesome weed in the central and western U.S.
- saffian leather — leather made of sheepskin or goatskin tanned with sumac and usually dyed a bright color
- saguia el hamra — the N part of Western Sahara.
- sailor's choice — any of various small percoid fishes of American coastal regions of the Atlantic, esp the grunt Haemulon parra and the pinfish
- sailor's-choice — any of several fishes living in waters along the Atlantic coast of the U.S., especially a pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, ranging from Massachusetts to Texas, and a grunt, Haemulon parrai, ranging from Florida to Brazil.
- scared shitless — terrified
- scarlet lychnis — a plant, Lychnis chalcedonica, of the pink family, having scarlet or sometimes white flowers, the arrangement and shape of the petals resembling a Maltese cross.
- schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
- self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
- self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
- semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- separate school — (in Canada) a school for a large religious minority financed by its rates and administered by its own school board but under the authority of the provincial department of education
- shalmaneser iii — died 824? b.c, Assyrian ruler 859–824?.
- shark repellent — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
- sharm al-sheikh — a village and military post in E Egypt, on the Sinai Peninsula, guarding the Gulf of Suez.
- sharm el-sheikh — a city in Egypt on the southern point of the Sinai Peninsula on the Red Sea; a major holiday resort. Pop: 73 000 (2015 est)
- 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.
- ship's articles — a type of contract by which sailors agree to the conditions, payment, etc, for the ship in which they are going to work
- shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)
- short-eared owl — a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
- shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
- shoulder season — a travel season between peak and off-peak seasons, especially spring and fall, when fares tend to be relatively low.
- shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
- shutter release — a button or similar device used to actuate a camera shutter.