15-letter words containing s, h, i
- kinesthesiology — The medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints.
- kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
- king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
- king's shilling — (until 1879) a shilling given a recruit in the British army to bind his enlistment contract.
- kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
- kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- kitchen utensil — a utensil intended for use in a kitchen, such as a chopping board, saucepan, or knife
- knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
- label switching — (networking) A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
- labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
- lake saint john — a lake in Canada, in S Quebec: drained by the Saguenay River. Area: 971 sq km (375 sq miles)
- lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
- lake-saint-john — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
- las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
- laser chemistry — the use of a laser to initiate and control chemical reactions.
- laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
- learner's chain — an inexperienced team of slaughtermen working in a freezing works
- least killifish — a fish, Heterandria formosa, of coastal swamps from South Carolina to Florida, that feeds on mosquito larvae.
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
- licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
- lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- liechtensteiner — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
- life membership — the fact or condition of being a life member
- light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
- light in august — a novel (1932) by William Faulkner.
- light-sensitive — (of a surface) having a photoelectric property, such as the ability to generate a current, change its electrical resistance, etc, when exposed to light
- lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
- lighthouse tube — a vacuum tube with the electrodes arranged in parallel layers closely spaced, giving a relatively high-power output at high frequencies.
- lightning chess — rapid chess in which either each move has a fixed time allowed (usually 10 seconds) or each player is allotted a fixed time (often 5 minutes) for all his moves
- lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
- lithochromatics — the art or process of painting in oil on stone and taking impressions from the result
- locomotive shed — a shed in which locomotives are kept
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
- loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
- louisiana heron — tricolored heron.
- lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
- lzh compression — (algorithm) (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
- macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
- machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
- madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
- magic mushrooms — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
- mahrisch-ostrau — German name of Moravská Ostrava.
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- male chauvinism — the beliefs, attitudes, or behavior of male chauvinists (men who patronize, disparage, or otherwise denigrate females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit).
- male chauvinist — a male who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
- man of his word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- man-of-war fish — a small, tropical fish, Nomeus gronovii, that lives among the tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war.
- mannheim school — a group of musicians of the mid-18th century in Mannheim, Germany, notable for developing a style of orchestral composition and performance directly antecedent to and influential on the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.