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16-letter words containing s, h, o, r, t

  • sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
  • st. clair shores — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • st. john's-bread — carob (def 2).
  • stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • stannic chloride — a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl 4 , soluble in water and alcohol, that converts with water to a crystalline solid: used for electrically conductive and electroluminescent coatings and in ceramics.
  • state of the art — the latest and most sophisticated or advanced stage of a technology, art, or science.
  • state-of-the-art — the latest and most sophisticated or advanced stage of a technology, art, or science.
  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
  • still photograph — a photograph taken from a cinema film which is used for publicity purposes
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • straight shooter — a person who is forthright and upstanding in behavior.
  • streets ahead of — superior to, more advanced than, etc
  • stretch receptor — muscle spindle.
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • stroboradiograph — a stroboscopic radiograph.
  • subtropical high — one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Compare high (def 37).
  • 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
  • surrogate mother — a person who acts in the place of another person's biological mother.
  • surround theater — a theater, concert hall, or the like, in which seats are arranged around or on all four sides of a central stage.
  • synchrocyclotron — a type of cyclotron that synchronizes its accelerating voltage with particle velocity in order to compensate for the relativistic mass increase of the particle as it approaches the speed of light.
  • take holy orders — to become ordained
  • teachers college — a four-year college offering courses for the training of primary and secondary school teachers and granting the bachelor's degree and often advanced degrees.
  • the best part of — most of
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the creole state — a nickname for Louisiana
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • the gospel truth — the unquestionable truth
  • the great powers — the states or nations of the world with the most economic, political and military strength
  • the honor system — a reliance on people to behave properly without supervision
  • the lion's share — the largest portion
  • the morn's nicht — tomorrow night
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
  • the renosterveld — an area of high altitude in SW South Africa, having fertile ground
  • the resurrection — the rising of Jesus from the dead after his death and burial
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the scotch-irish — people of Scotch-Irish descent
  • the scots guards — a regiment of Guards Division of the British Army which dates back to 1642
  • the sooner state — the nickname of the US state of Oklahoma, which comes from the name of its early settlers
  • the state sector — the part of the economy that is controlled by the state
  • the story of mel — The story of Mel, a Real Programmer
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • the years of sth — the period when sth happened or existed
  • the yellow press — (formerly) popular newspapers publishing sensational stories
  • 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
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