15-letter words containing s, h, r
- guest of honour — If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.
- h g edgar degas — Hilaire Germain Edgar [ee-ler zher-man ed-gar] /iˈlɛr ʒɛrˈmɛ̃ ɛdˈgar/ (Show IPA), 1834–1917, French impressionist painter.
- hair extensions — synthetic or human hair attached to the hair on someone's head to give the appearance of longer hair
- hair specialist — an expert in the treatment and care of human hair
- hair transplant — the surgical transfer of clumps of skin with hair or of viable hair follicles from one site of the body to another, usually performed to correct baldness.
- half-understood — partially understood
- halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
- hamersley range — a mountain range in N Western Australia: iron-ore deposits. Highest peak: 1236 m (4056 ft)
- hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
- harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
- hard disk drive — (storage) (HDD) A disk drive used to read and write hard disks.
- hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
- hard-shell clam — quahog.
- hard-shell crab — a crab, especially an edible crab, that has not recently molted and has a hard shell.
- hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
- hardheartedness — The state of being hardhearted.
- hardship clause — a clause in a contract which covers unforeseen events that would make it more difficult for one party to complete the contract, and in which case offers alternative terms
- hare and hounds — an outdoor game in which certain players, the hares, start off in advance on a long run, scattering small pieces of paper, called the scent, with the other players, the hounds, following the trail so marked in an effort to catch the hares before they reach a designated point.
- harlequin snake — the E American coral snake (Micrurus fulvius)
- harmonic series — a series in which the reciprocals of the terms form an arithmetic progression.
- harun al-rashid — a.d. 764?–809, caliph of Baghdad 786–809: one of the greatest Abbasids, he was made almost a legendary hero in the Arabian Nights.
- harun ar-rashid — a.d. 764?-809; caliph of Baghdad (786-809): given popular fame as a hero of The Arabian Nights
- hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
- hautes-pyrenees — a department in SW France. 1751 sq. mi. (4535 sq. km). Capital: Tarbes.
- have a crush on — be attracted to: sb
- have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- have words with — to argue angrily with
- haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
- hazard analysis — risk assessment
- hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
- head over heels — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- heads will roll — If you say that heads will roll as a result of something bad that has happened, you mean that people will be punished for it, especially by losing their jobs.
- health minister — a government minister who is responsible for health
- heart of hearts — the depths of one's conscience or emotions
- heart's content — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- heart-searching — a thorough examination of one's feelings and motives; a self-examination of one's conscience.
- heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
- heaviside layer — E layer.
- hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
- heliacal rising — rising of a celestial object at approximately the same time as the rising of the sun
- hemangiosarcoma — A fast-growing, highly invasive variety of cancer, a sarcoma arising from the lining of blood vessels, occurring almost exclusively in dogs and rarely in cats.
- hemochromatosis — a rare metabolic disorder characterized by a bronzed skin, cirrhosis, and severe diabetes, caused by the deposit in tissue, especially of the liver and pancreas, of hemosiderin and other pigments containing iron.
- henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
- heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
- hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.
- hereditarianism — a person who believes that differences between individuals or groups, including moral and intellectual attributes, are predominantly determined by genetic factors (opposed to environmentalist).
- hereditarianist — a person who believes in the doctrine of hereditarianism
- hermaphroditism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- hernando cortes — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
- heroin overdose — an excessive amount of the drug heroin, sufficient to cause illness or death