16-letter words containing s, h, u, e, r
- turkish crescent — crescent (def 6).
- twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
- un-reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
- uncharacteristic — Also, characteristical. pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.
- uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- under sb's thumb — If you are under someone's thumb, you are under their control, or very heavily influenced by them.
- undernourishment — If someone is suffering from undernourishment, they have poor health because they are not eating enough food or are eating the wrong kind of food.
- union membership — members of a trade union
- unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
- upper atmosphere — the portion of the atmosphere above the troposphere.
- vauxhall gardens — a public garden at Vauxhall, laid out in 1661; a fashionable meeting place and site of lavish entertainments. Closed in 1859
- walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
- washing-up water — water used for washing dishes
- well-upholstered — (of a person) fat
- whited sepulcher — an evil person who feigns goodness; hypocrite. Matt. 23:27.
- whited sepulchre — hypocrite
- with due respect — with deserved esteem
- without recourse — a qualified endorsement on such a negotiable instrument, by which the endorser protects himself or herself from liability to subsequent holders