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

  • spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • spill the beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
  • spin the bottle — a game in which someone spins a bottle and receives a kiss from the person at whom the bottle points on coming to rest.
  • 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.
  • squelch circuit — a circuit which disconnects a receiver in order to eliminate output noise when no signal or an extremely weak signal is received
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
  • stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
  • street lighting — the provision of lighting at night in public places to illuminate the streets
  • 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
  • strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
  • succinylcholine — a drug, C14H30N2O4, used primarily as a muscle relaxant, produced by the esterization of succinic acid with choline
  • sully-prudhomme — René François Armand [ruh-ney frahn-swa ar-mahn] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa arˈmɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.
  • sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
  • sulphur dioxide — a colourless soluble pungent gas produced by burning sulphur. It is both an oxidizing and a reducing agent and is used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, the preservation of a wide range of foodstuffs (E220), bleaching, and disinfecting. Formula: SO2
  • summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
  • sweet chocolate — cocoa product with high sugar content
  • sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
  • swellheadedness — the fact or state of being conceited
  • sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • synecdochically — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • 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 black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the classifieds — a section of classified advertising in a publication
  • 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 devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
  • 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 jos plateau — a plateau in Nigeria with an average altitude of 1280 metres
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the last moment — If someone does something at the last moment, they do it at the latest time possible.
  • the last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
  • the lost tribes — the ten tribes deported from the N kingdom of Israel in 721 bc and believed never to have returned to Palestine
  • 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 peloponnese — the S peninsula of Greece, joined to central Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth: chief cities in ancient times were Sparta and Corinth, now Patras. Pop: 503 300 (2001). Area: 21 439 sq km (8361 sq miles)
  • the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
  • 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
  • the tall blacks — the international basketball team of New Zealand
  • the whole shoot — everything
  • thing-in-itself — reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. Compare noumenon (def 3).
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
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