0%

14-letter words containing s, h, i, l

  • ride the rails — Someone who rides the rails travels by train, especially over a long period of time and without buying a ticket.
  • ross ice shelf — an ice barrier filling the S part of the Ross Sea.
  • royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
  • running lights — the lights that a ship or aircraft traveling at night is required to display
  • russia leather — a fine, smooth leather produced by careful tanning and dyeing, especially in dark red: originally prepared in Russia.
  • sailing dinghy — a small boat or dinghy with a single mast, used esp for recreational sailing
  • sailing length — a measurement of a yacht, comprising its length on the water line as well as certain measurements taken from the overhangs at bow and stern.
  • saint nicholas — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • salmon fishing — the sport of angling for salmon
  • sandhill crane — a North American crane, Grus canadensis, having bluish-gray plumage and a red forehead.
  • sandwich glass — any of various forms of glassware manufactured at Sandwich, Mass., from 1825 to c1890.
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • satellite dish — dish (def 8).
  • scaphocephalic — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • scheme library — (library)   (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
  • schleiermacher — Friedrich Ernst Daniel [free-drikh ernst dah-nee-el] /ˈfri drɪx ɛrnst ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1768–1834, German theologian and philosopher.
  • schlockmeister — a person who deals in or sells inferior or worthless goods; junk dealer.
  • scholastically — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
  • school council — a group of pupils who are elected by fellow pupils to represent their school and think of ideas for improving it
  • school edition — a special edition of a book for distribution to schools or colleges, subject to a special rate of discount, sometimes without a dust jacket (distinguished from trade edition).
  • school library — a library within a school where teachers and students have access to books and other resources
  • school of mind — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the original unity of all things, to be grasped through the perfect attainment of jen.
  • school uniform — standard outfit worn by pupils
  • schoolchildren — a child attending school.
  • schoolies week — (in Australia) a week when large numbers of school leavers gather together for a holiday away from home after the end of their final exams
  • schoolmistress — a woman who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
  • scotch thistle — a tall, prickly plant, Onopordum acanthium, native to Eurasia, having stems and leaves covered with cottony down and solitary purple flower heads: the national emblem of Scotland.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • self-enriching — to supply with riches, wealth, abundant or valuable possessions, etc.: Commerce enriches a nation.
  • self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
  • self-ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
  • self-published — published independently by the author: self-published books.
  • self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
  • self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • semi-spherical — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
  • sesquisulphide — a sulphide containing three sulphur atoms to two of some other element
  • shabby-looking — appearing old and in bad condition
  • shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
  • sharptail mola — a fish, Masturus lanceolatus, related to the ocean sunfish but having a pointed tail.
  • sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
  • sheffield lake — a town in N Ohio.
  • shield cricket — the interstate cricket competition held for the Sheffield Shield
  • shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
  • shifty-looking — having the appearance of being dishonest
  • shillingsworth — the amount that can be purchased for a shilling
  • shipping clerk — a clerk who attends to the packing, unpacking, receiving, sending out, and recording of shipments.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?