15-letter words containing s, h, e, r, t, o
- relative to sth — Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
- religious right — US right-wing Christian movement
- reorchestration — a renewed or second orchestration of a piece of music, the act of reorchestrating
- reported speech — indirect quotation
- reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
- rhesus positive — relating to blood containing Rhesus antigen D
- rheumatism-root — spotted wintergreen.
- rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
- right ascension — the arc of the celestial equator measured eastward from the vernal equinox to the foot of the great circle passing through the celestial poles and a given point on the celestial sphere, expressed in degrees or hours.
- right of search — the privilege of a nation at war to search neutral ships on the high seas for contraband or other matter, carried in violation of neutrality, that may subject the ship to seizure.
- right to choose — the right of a woman to have a legal abortion if she chooses to do so.
- riverworthiness — (of a boat) the quality or state of being riverworthy
- rochester hills — city in SE Mich., near Detroit: pop. 69,000
- rocket research — research into rocket engines for spacecraft
- rolle's theorem — the theorem that a differentiable function having equal values at the endpoints of an interval has a derivative equal to zero at some point in the interval.
- round the twist — mad; eccentric
- round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- saccharomycetes — a collective name for yeasts
- sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
- scared to death — terrified
- scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
- schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
- scotch foursome — foursome (def 2b).
- 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.
- self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
- self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
- semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- 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
- serve one right — to act as a servant.
- service history — information concerning all of a car's services (ie overhauls, checks, or repairs)
- shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
- shelikof strait — a strait between the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island, in S Alaska. 130 miles (209 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- sherwood forest — an ancient royal forest in central England, chiefly in Nottinghamshire: the traditional haunt of Robin Hood.
- shock resistant — not affected by impact
- shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
- shock-resistant — strong or resilient enough to sustain minor impacts without damage to the internal mechanism: a shock-resistant watch.
- shoot the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- 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.
- short and sweet — having little length; not long.
- short of breath — If you are short of breath, you find it difficult to breathe properly, for example because you are ill. You can also say that someone suffers from shortness of breath.
- short-eared owl — a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
- shorthand notes — notes written in shorthand
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- shot in the arm — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
- social heritage — the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.
- socratic method — the use of questions, as employed by Socrates, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil, or to elicit admissions, as from an opponent, tending to establish a proposition.