15-letter words containing s, h, e, f
- ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
- ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
- 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.
- guest of honour — If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.
- half-successful — achieving or having achieved success.
- 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.
- health benefits — positive effects on health
- heart of hearts — the depths of one's conscience or emotions
- help oneself to — to serve or provide oneself with (food, etc.)
- heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
- hit the buffers — to finish or be stopped, esp unexpectedly
- hoffman estates — a city in NE Illinois.
- hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
- house of prayer — house of God.
- housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
- housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
- hundred flowers — the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- if nothing else — You can say 'if nothing else' to indicate that what you are mentioning is, in your opinion, the only good thing in a particular situation.
- if the cap fits — the allusion or criticism seems to be appropriate to a particular person
- in spite of sth — You use in spite of to introduce a fact which makes the rest of the statement you are making seem surprising.
- in the hands of — under the control of
- in the midst of — amid, among
- in the shape of — You can use in the shape of to state exactly who or what you are referring to, immediately after referring to them in a general way.
- infeasible path — dead code
- insight-fulness — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- isle of sheppey — an island in SE England, off the N coast of Kent in the Thames estuary: separated from the mainland by The Swale, a narrow channel. Chief towns: Sheerness, Minster. Pop: 37 852 (2001 est). Area: 80 sq km (30 sq miles)
- isthmus of suez — a strip of land in NE Egypt, between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea: links Africa and Asia and is crossed by the Suez Canal
- kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
- kaffeeklatsches — Plural form of kaffeeklatsch.
- knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
- least killifish — a fish, Heterandria formosa, of coastal swamps from South Carolina to Florida, that feeds on mosquito larvae.
- life membership — the fact or condition of being a life member
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- make a hames of — to spoil through clumsiness or ineptitude
- multiphase flow — Multiphase flow is a type of flow that involves more than one fluid, for example a liquid and a gas, or two liquids that do not mix.
- of one's choice — The thing or person of your choice is the one that you choose.
- off one's chump — insane; crazy
- off one's hands — for which one is no longer responsible
- oil of the sick — holy oil used in the sacrament of extreme unction.
- on the heels of — the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- one for his nob — the call made with this jack, scoring one point
- one of the boys — If a man is described as one of the boys, he is accepted by a group of male friends who do things that are thought of as typically masculine.
- oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).