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

  • russian wolfhound — borzoi.
  • scarlet firethorn — a Eurasian evergreen, thorny shrub, Pyracantha coccinea, of the rose family, having white, hairy flower clusters and bright red berries.
  • scarlet lightning — scarlet lychnis.
  • schmidt telescope — a wide-angle reflecting telescope used primarily for astronomical photography, in which spherical aberration and coma are reduced to a minimum by means of a spherical mirror with a corrector plate near its focus.
  • scrophulariaceous — belonging to the Scrophulariaceae, the figwort family of plants.
  • self-annihilation — self-destruction; suicide.
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • sexual dimorphism — the condition in which the males and females in a species are morphologically different, as with many birds.
  • sheltered housing — accommodation designed esp for the elderly or infirm consisting of a group of individual premises, often with some shared facilities and a caretaker
  • shipping articles — articles of agreement.
  • shirt-tail cousin — a distant cousin
  • shit on a shingle — creamed chipped beef or ground beef in a sauce, served on toast.
  • shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
  • shopping bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shopping-bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
  • simulated leather — fake leather that is an imitation of real leather and is usually made from a cheaper material
  • sinbad the sailor — a merchant in The Arabian Nights who makes seven adventurous voyages
  • sinclair research — (company)   A British microelectronics developer and manufacturer. Evolving from Sinclair Radionics in 1979, Sinclair Research was owned by Sir Clive Sinclair. Sinclair Radionics produced electronic components and devices (such as calculators and pocket radios and televisions), but Sinclair Research began by producing some of the first 8-bit home microcomputers. Sinclair produced five microcomputers from 1980 to 1987, all based on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor (except for the QL, which used the Motorola 68008 - a variant on the 68000). The 1K kit-build ZX80, introduced in 1980, was followed by the 1K ZX81 (expandable to 16K) in 1981, the 16K (expandable to 48K) ZX Spectrum in 1982 (then superseded by two distinct 48K models and a 128K model in 1986) and the QL (Quantum Leap) in 1984. A portable laptop computer, the Z88, was released in 1987 under the Cambridge Computers banner. Of them all, the ZX Spectrum was the best known, and it went on to become the most popular microcomputer of its time in the United Kingdom and in many other territories. This was partly due to its ease of use, and also due to its enormous software catalogue, covering games, word processing, music, programming and graphics. Glorious "mine's-better-than-yours" battles were fought (and still are today) between owners of Spectrums and Commodore 64s over who had the best machine. Sir Clive's financial problems in the mid-80s led him to sell the rights to the Sinclair brand to Amstrad in April 1986. This led to further models of the Spectrum being released from 1986 to 1988 and also an IBM PC-compatible based internally on Amstrad's own PC range. Sir Clive was not involved with the production of these computers, and no computer with the Sinclair name has been produced since.
  • single-sheet feed — a mechanism for feeding or taking single sheets of paper into a printer
  • slap on the wrist — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
  • social psychology — the psychological study of social behavior, especially of the reciprocal influence of the individual and the group with which the individual interacts.
  • socratic elenchus — the drawing out of the consequences of a position in order to show them to be contrary to some accepted position
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • south lanarkshire — a council area of S Scotland, comprising the S part of the historical county of Lanarkshire: included within Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996: has uplands in the S and part of the Glasgow conurbation in the N: mainly agricultural. Administrative centre: Hamilton. Pop: 303 010 (2003 est). Area: 1771 sq km (684 sq miles)
  • south sea islands — the islands in the S Pacific that constitute Oceania
  • southern triangle — the constellation Triangulum Australe.
  • spanish civil war — the civil war in Spain 1936–39.
  • spanish influenza — the pandemic respiratory infection that spread throughout the world during 1917–18.
  • special schooling — the system of educating children with special needs in schools designed to meet their needs
  • spectroheliograph — an apparatus for making photographs of the sun with a monochromatic light to show the details of the sun's surface and surroundings as they would appear if the sun emitted only that light.
  • spectrohelioscope — a spectroheliograph.
  • speech difficulty — a problem encountered in speaking
  • spherical polygon — a closed figure formed by arcs of great circles on a spherical surface.
  • spin one's wheels — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
  • spinal anesthesia — interruption of conduction of nerve impulses by the injection of an anesthetic into the spinal canal that reduces sensitivity to pain without loss of consciousness.
  • spiritual healing — faith healing
  • spondylolisthesis — the forward displacement of a vertebra.
  • spoonbill catfish — flathead catfish.
  • spruce gall aphid — any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid) that feed and form galls on conifers.
  • square the circle — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • stannous chloride — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, SnCl 2 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly as a reducing and tinning agent, and as a mordant in dyeing with cochineal.
  • statutory holiday — a public holiday; a holiday all workers are entitled to
  • stenothermophilic — growing best within a narrow temperature range.
  • stereolithography — a process for creating three-dimensional objects using a computer-controlled laser to build up the required structure, layer by layer, from a liquid photopolymer that solidifies.
  • sting in the tail — an unexpected and unpleasant ending
  • straight arm lift — a wrestling attack, in which a wrestler twists the opponent's arm against the joint and lifts him or her by it, often using the shoulder as a fulcrum
  • stretch limousine — a limousine that has been lengthened to provide extra seating accommodation and more legroom
  • striped killifish — a killifish, Fundulus majalis, of the Atlantic coast of the U.S., the female of which is marked with black stripes.
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