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16-letter words containing s, h, e, l, a, n

  • shark repellents — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
  • shipping channel — a navigational pathway that a ship uses to travel from one place to another
  • shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
  • shoot one's load — (of a man) to ejaculate at orgasm
  • shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
  • shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
  • shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
  • shoulder harness — the part of a seat belt that goes over the shoulder and diagonally across the chest.
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • slap in the face — smack on the cheek
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
  • south charleston — a city in W West Virginia.
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spanish bluebell — a bulbous plant, Endymion hispanicus, of the lily family, native to Spain and Portugal, having blue, white, or pink, bell-shaped flowers.
  • spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
  • spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
  • special handling — (in the U.S. Postal Service) the handling of third- and fourth-class mail as first-class upon the payment of a fee.
  • spin the platter — a game in which one member of a group spins a platter on its edge and a designated member must catch it before it falls or pay a forfeit.
  • splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
  • splanchnopleural — 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.
  • spring ephemeral — any of various woodland wildflowers that appear above ground in early spring, flower and fruit, and die in a short two-month period.
  • standard english — the English language in its most widely accepted form, as written and spoken by educated people in both formal and informal contexts, having universal currency while incorporating regional differences.
  • stannic chloride — a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl 4 , soluble in water and alcohol, that converts with water to a crystalline solid: used for electrically conductive and electroluminescent coatings and in ceramics.
  • stannic sulphide — an insoluble solid compound of tin usually existing as golden crystals or as a yellowish-brown powder: used as a pigment. Formula: SnS2
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • sth rings a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • streak lightning — lightning in which there is a sudden flash from what appears to be a single main line
  • sulfarsphenamine — a yellow, water-soluble, arsenic-containing powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 As 2 N 2 Na 2 O 8 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of syphilis.
  • sutherland falls — a waterfall in New Zealand, on SW South Island. 1904 feet (580 meters) high.
  • swedish vallhund — a small sturdy dog of a Swedish breed with a long body and pricked pointed ears
  • take one's heels — the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
  • technical school — college of further and vocational education
  • the barren lands — a region of tundra in N Canada, extending westwards from Hudson Bay: sparsely inhabited, chiefly by Inuit
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the lion's share — the largest portion
  • the south island — the largest island of New Zealand, separated from the North Island by the Cook Strait. Pop: 1 048 200 (2013 est). Area: 153 947 sq km (59 439 sq miles)
  • the supernatural — supernatural forces, occurrences, and beings collectively or their realm
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • the weakest link — the person who is making the least contribution to the collective achievement of a group
  • thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
  • thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
  • thermal neutrons — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • throw oneself at — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
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