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15-letter words containing s, h, e, p, t, r

  • scrape together — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
  • separate school — (in Canada) a school for a large religious minority financed by its rates and administered by its own school board but under the authority of the provincial department of education
  • serum hepatitis — hepatitis B.
  • shark repellent — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
  • ship's articles — a type of contract by which sailors agree to the conditions, payment, etc, for the ship in which they are going to work
  • shopping center — a group of stores within a single architectural plan, supplying most of the basic shopping needs, especially in suburban areas.
  • shopping centre — A shopping centre is a specially built area containing a lot of different shops.
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
  • space character — a keyed space in text or data
  • spaghetti strap — a thin, often rounded strip of fabric used in women's clothing, as to form a shoulder strap on a bare-shouldered garment.
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
  • sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
  • spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
  • spread the word — make others aware
  • st. christopher — Saint, died a.d. c250, Christian martyr.
  • 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
  • stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
  • studhorse poker — stud poker.
  • substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
  • superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
  • sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
  • the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
  • the last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
  • the proprieties — the standards of behaviour considered correct by polite society
  • the upper ranks — the higher divisions of the armed forces
  • theory of types — a theory advanced by Bertrand Russell to avoid the liar paradox, Russell's paradox, etc, in which a class of expressions or of the entities they represent can all enter into the same syntactic relations
  • theriomorphosis — transformation into an animal form, often associated with mythological characters
  • thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
  • thought process — thinking, train of thought
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
  • trans-euphrates — a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey through Syria and Iraq, joining the Tigris to form the Shatt-al-Arab near the Persian Gulf. 1700 miles (2735 km) long.
  • west hartlepool — a former borough, now part of Hartlepool, in Cleveland County, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tees.
  • white corpuscle — white blood cell.
  • white supremacy — the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial groups, especially black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.
  • with respect to — as regards
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