16-letter words containing s, h, u
- dunderheadedness — Stupidity.
- easter sepulcher — sepulcher (def 2).
- easter-sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- enough is enough — expressing exasperation
- enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
- entrepreneurship — The art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business.
- episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
- escutcheon plate — a plate or shield that surrounds a keyhole, door handle, light switch, etc, esp an ornamental one protecting a door or wall surface
- ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
- exchange student — sb who studies abroad
- exhaust analysis — An exhaust analysis is an examination of the constituents of an engine's gases, vapors, and particulates.
- exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
- farmhouse cheese — cheese that is made by traditional methods, on or as if on a farm
- farquhar islands — an island group in the Indian Ocean: administratively part of the Seychelles
- fashion business — the business dealing with style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
- fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
- father-surrogate — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
- ferrous sulphate — an iron salt with a saline taste, usually obtained as greenish crystals of the heptahydrate, which are converted to the white monohydrate above 100°C: used in inks, tanning, water purification, and in the treatment of anaemia. Formula: FeSO4
- figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
- finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
- first four ships — the earliest settlers' ships to arrive in the Canterbury Province
- fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
- fishing industry — the industry of catching fish
- flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
- flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
- follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
- forbush decrease — the sudden decrease in the intensity of cosmic rays after an increase in solar activity.
- fort sam houston — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in San Antonio, Tex.
- founders' shares — shares awarded to the founders of a company and often granting special privileges
- fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
- franchise clause — a clause stipulating that the insured will be responsible for any loss not in excess of a stated amount, and the insurance company will be liable for full payment of the loss equaling or exceeding the amount up to the insured amount.
- frankfurt school — a school of thought, founded at the University of Frankfurt in 1923 by Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and others, derived from Marxist, Freudian, and Hegelian theory
- fraternity house — a house occupied by a college or university fraternity.
- fraunhofer lines — a set of dark lines appearing in the continuous emission spectrum of the sun. It is caused by the absorption of light of certain wavelengths coming from the hotter region of the sun by elements in the cooler outer atmosphere
- freshly squeezed — You can describe juice that has been recently pressed out of fruit as freshly squeezed.
- full speed ahead — train: at top speed
- full steam ahead — If something such as a plan or a project goes full steam ahead, it progresses quickly.
- functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
- furniture polish — product: shines wood
- gadsden purchase — a tract of 45,535 sq. mi. (117,935 sq. km), now contained in New Mexico and Arizona, purchased for $10,000,000 from Mexico in 1853, the treaty being negotiated by James Gadsden.
- garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
- girls' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of women
- glory-of-the-sun — a bulbous, Chilean plant, Leucocoryne ixioides, of the amaryllis family, having fragrant, white or blue flowers.
- gnu archive site — (body) The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
- golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
- good housekeeper — a person who is an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
- government house — the official residence of a colonial governor, as in a British Commonwealth country.
- gray nurse shark — a sand shark, Odontaspis arenarius, abundant in S African and Australian coastal waters and estuaries.
- grey nurse shark — a common greyish Australian shark, Odontaspis arenarius
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone