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16-letter words containing s, h, e, p, t

  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
  • spreader-ditcher — a machine for shaping and cleaning roadbeds and ditches and for freeing tracks of ice and snow by plowing and digging.
  • 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
  • stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
  • stephen f austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
  • stretch receptor — muscle spindle.
  • sulphur trioxide — a white corrosive substance existing in three crystalline forms of which the stable (alpha-) form is usually obtained as silky needles. It is produced by the oxidation of sulphur dioxide, and is used in the sulphonation of organic compounds. Formula: SO3
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • swash plate pump — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and imparts reciprocating motion to push rods parallel to the shaft axis
  • sweet pepperbush — a shrub, Clethra alnifolia, of the eastern and southern coastal U.S., having numerous erect clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
  • sweeten the pill — If someone does something to sweeten the pill or sugar the pill, they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable.
  • synthetic speech — computer-generated audio output that resembles human speech, produced by an electronic synthesizer operated by means of a keyboard.
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • tea and sympathy — a caring attitude, esp to someone in trouble
  • telescopic sight — a telescope mounted on a rifle, etc, used for sighting
  • the best part of — most of
  • the dispossessed — people who have had property or possessions taken away
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • the gospel truth — the unquestionable truth
  • the great escape — a film (1963) directed by John Sturges, written by James Clavell and W.R. Burnett, based on a book by Paul Brickhill, and starring Steve McQueen. It follows an attempt made by Allied prisoners of war to escape a German prisoner of war camp during World War II
  • the great powers — the states or nations of the world with the most economic, political and military strength
  • the heavens open — If the heavens open, it suddenly starts raining very heavily.
  • the mendip hills — a range of limestone hills in SW England, in N Somerset: includes the Cheddar Gorge and numerous caves. Highest point: 325 m (1068 ft)
  • the opposite sex — women in relation to men or men in relation to women
  • the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
  • the public purse — money from or controlled by the government
  • the supernatural — supernatural forces, occurrences, and beings collectively or their realm
  • the time is ripe — If you say the time is ripe, you mean that a suitable time has arrived for something to be done.
  • the yellow press — (formerly) popular newspapers publishing sensational stories
  • the-card-players — a painting (1892) by Paul Cézanne.
  • theatre workshop — a theatre company that is noted for the unconventional theatrical performances it puts on, especially with reference to a company based in the East End of London from 1953 to 1973 that was founded in 1945 by Joan Littlewood
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • three-piece suit — men's formal outfit
  • thrombophlebitis — the presence of a thrombus in a vein accompanied by inflammation of the vessel wall.
  • through-composed — having different music for each verse: a through-composed song. Compare strophic (def 2).
  • to change places — If you change places with another person, you start being in their situation or role, and they start being in yours.
  • to coin a phrase — You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
  • to lose the plot — If someone loses the plot, they become confused and do not know what they should do.
  • to pass the buck — If you pass the buck, you refuse to accept responsibility for something, and say that someone else is responsible.
  • to pass the time — If you do something to pass the time you do it because you have some time available and not because you really want to do it.
  • topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
  • troop the colors — to parade the colors, or flag, before troops
  • two-tailed pasha — a distinctive vanessid butterfly of S Europe, Charaxes jasius, having mottled brown wings with a yellow-orange margin and frilled hind edges
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • up to the elbows — deeply engaged (in work, etc.)
  • upper atmosphere — the portion of the atmosphere above the troposphere.
  • washing-up water — water used for washing dishes
  • watch one's step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
  • watch this space — Journalists write 'Watch this space' in order to indicate in an informal way that they will be giving more information about something in the future.
  • weatherstripping — A piece of weatherstrip material.
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