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

  • sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
  • social heritage — the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.
  • sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
  • soldier's heart — cardiac neurosis.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
  • sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
  • summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
  • sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
  • the early hours — If something happens in the early hours, in the small hours, or in the wee hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the everlasting — God
  • the last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the netherlands — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
  • the small hours — If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the square mile — the area in central London in which the United Kingdom's major financial business is transacted
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • track athletics — sporting activities, such as relay running or sprinting, which take place on a running track
  • training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
  • turn the scales — to determine or decide something uncertain
  • turn the tables — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
  • unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
  • unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
  • universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
  • urquhart castle — a castle near Drumnadrochit in Highland, Scotland: situated on Loch Ness
  • walrus mustache — a thick, shaggy mustache hanging down loosely at both ends.
  • wechsler scales — a group of intelligence tests, including the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) later revised (WAIS-R) the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) later revised (WISC-R) the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) and the Wechsler-Bellevue Scale, no longer used, all of which emphasize performance and verbal skills and give separate scores for subtests in vocabulary, arithmetic, memory span, assembly of objects, and other abilities.
  • wee small hours — the hours just after midnight
  • welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame
  • wentworth scale — a scale for specifying the sizes (diameters) of sedimentary particles, ranging from clay particles (less than 1⁄256 mm) to boulders (over 256 mm)
  • west hartlepool — a former borough, now part of Hartlepool, in Cleveland County, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tees.
  • wheelchair user — a person who is unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relies on a wheelchair to move around
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