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15-letter words containing s, h, r, e, a, d

  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • rez-de-chaussee — street level; ground floor.
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • roundheadedness — the state of having a round head
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • sacred mushroom — any of various hallucinogenic mushrooms, esp species of Psilocybe and Amanita, that have been eaten in rituals in various parts of the world
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • scared shitless — terrified
  • scared to death — terrified
  • security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • short and sweet — having little length; not long.
  • 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.
  • shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
  • shoulder season — a travel season between peak and off-peak seasons, especially spring and fall, when fares tend to be relatively low.
  • shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
  • 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.
  • sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • software method — Software Methodology
  • soldier's heart — cardiac neurosis.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
  • spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
  • spread the word — make others aware
  • stack the cards — to prearrange the order of a pack of cards secretly so that the deal will benefit someone
  • staggered hours — a system of working in which the employees of an organization do not all arrive and leave at the same time, but have large periods of overlap
  • standing charge — fixed energy costs
  • start of header — (character)   (SOH) mnemonic for ASCII 1.
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
  • student teacher — a student who is studying to be a teacher and who, as part of the training, observes classroom instruction or does closely supervised teaching in an elementary or secondary school.
  • summer diarrhea — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
  • sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
  • the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
  • the desert rats — nickname for the British 7th Armoured Division during WWII
  • the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • the netherlands — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
  • the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
  • the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
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