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15-letter words containing s, h, u, e

  • schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
  • school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
  • schopenhauerian — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
  • scotch foursome — foursome (def 2b).
  • second thoughts — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
  • security threat — a threat to the security of a country
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • self-punishment — the act of punishing.
  • sense of humour — Someone who has a sense of humour often finds things amusing, rather than being serious all the time.
  • serum hepatitis — hepatitis B.
  • shalosh seudoth — the last of the three prescribed Sabbath meals, taken after Minhah and before the evening service.
  • shoot-the-chute — a fairground ride consisting of a boat which slides down into a lagoon
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
  • shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
  • 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.
  • shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
  • shunting engine — switch engine.
  • shut one's face — to be silent
  • shutter release — a button or similar device used to actuate a camera shutter.
  • shuttle service — transport going back and forth
  • 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.
  • sodium chloride — salt1 (def 1).
  • sodium ethylate — a white, hygroscopic powder, C 2 H 5 ONa, that is decomposed by water into sodium hydroxide and alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
  • sojourner truth — Sojourner [soh-jur-ner,, soh-jur-ner] /ˈsoʊ dʒɜr nər,, soʊˈdʒɜr nər/ (Show IPA), (Isabella Van Wagener) 1797?–1883, U.S. abolitionist, orator, and women's-rights advocate, born a slave.
  • south china sea — a part of the W Pacific, bounded by SE China, Vietnam, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and the Philippines.
  • south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
  • south salt lake — a town in N Utah.
  • south yorkshire — a metropolitan county in N England. 603 sq. mi. (1561 sq. km).
  • south-southeast — the point on the compass midway between south and southeast.
  • south-southwest — the point on the compass midway between south and southwest.
  • southeast asian — the countries and land area of Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southend-on-sea — a seaport in SE Essex, in SE England, on Thames estuary.
  • southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
  • southern gothic — a literary genre depicting life in the southern US and featuring grotesque themes and imagery
  • southern lights — aurora australis.
  • southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • spotted sunfish — a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.
  • squeeze through — to press forcibly together; compress.
  • squelch circuit — a circuit which disconnects a receiver in order to eliminate output noise when no signal or an extremely weak signal is received
  • 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
  • stay the course — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
  • stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
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