14-letter words containing s, h, e, f
- sigh of relief — audible breath when difficulty is over
- software house — a commercial organization that specializes in the production of computer software packages
- southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
- spearfisherman — a person who engages in spearfishing.
- sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
- sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
- stand the gaff — harsh treatment or criticism: All the gaff he took never made him bitter.
- stephen foster — Stephen (Collins) 1826–64, U.S. songwriter.
- stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
- straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- street fighter — a person whose style of fistfighting was learned in the streets, as opposed to a trained or proficient boxer.
- sulfuric ether — ether (def 1).
- sulphur-flower — a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.
- synthetic fuel — fuel in the form of liquid or gas (synthetic natural gas) manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
- szekesfehervar — a city in W central Hungary.
- teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
- the chosen few — a small group who are treated better than other people
- 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 five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
- the footlights — the theater, or acting as a profession
- the kiwi ferns — the women's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
- the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
- the reverse of — emphatically not; not at all
- the-federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
- thomas raffles — Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
- thomson effect — the tendency of unevenly heated segments of a strip of a conductor to increase or decrease in temperature differences when an electric current is passed through the strip.
- thoughtfulness — showing consideration for others; considerate.
- turkish coffee — a strong, usually sweetened coffee, made by boiling the pulverized coffee beans.
- turn of phrase — expression, wording
- uncheerfulness — (of a person) lack of cheerfulness; gloominess; unhappiness
- unfaithfulness — not faithful; false to duty, obligation, or promises; faithless; disloyal.
- unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
- unthankfulness — the quality or condition of being unthankful; lack of thankfulness; ungratefulness
- unwatchfulness — the quality or state of being unwatchful
- vote of thanks — A vote of thanks is an official speech in which the speaker formally thanks a person for doing something.
- waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
- welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
- well-fashioned — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- well-furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- worshipfulness — The state or condition of being worshipful; reverence.