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14-letter words containing s, h, y

  • shifty-looking — having the appearance of being dishonest
  • ship's company — company (def 11).
  • shirley templeShirley (Shirley Temple Black) 1928–2014, U.S. film actress, famous for child roles during the 1930s, and diplomat.
  • shoo-fly plant — apple of Peru.
  • shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
  • shove-ha'penny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
  • skiing holiday — a holiday taken (esp to somewhere that it snows) for the purpose of going skiing
  • slaughterously — murderously
  • sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
  • social history — a view of historical events seen in terms of social trends
  • sorority house — a house occupied by a college or university sorority.
  • south ayrshire — a council area of SW Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde: comprises the S part of the historical county of Ayrshire; formerly part of Strathclyde Region (1975–96): chiefly agricultural, with fishing and tourism. Administrative centre: Ayr. Pop: 111 580 (2003 est). Area: 1202 sq km (464 sq miles)
  • south tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 151 700 (2003 est). Area: 64 sq km (25 sq miles)
  • south-easterly — A south-easterly point, area, or direction is to the south-east or towards the south-east.
  • south-westerly — A south-westerly point, area, or direction is to the south-west or towards the south-west.
  • southern yemen — a former name of Yemen (def 1).
  • speech therapy — treatment for speaking disorders
  • sphaerocrystal — a spherical crystalline mass
  • spy-in-the-sky — of or relating to a surveillance camera mounted on an aircraft or orbiting satellite
  • st. john's day — the saint's day of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24, being one of the four quarter days in England.
  • staphylococcus — any of several spherical bacteria of the genus Staphylococcus, occurring in pairs, tetrads, and irregular clusters, certain species of which, as S. aureus, can be pathogenic for humans.
  • staphyloplasty — plastic surgery or surgical repair involving the soft palate or the uvula
  • stay stitching — a line of stitches made in the seam allowance to prevent the edges from stretching
  • stay the night — If you stay the night in a place, you sleep there for one night.
  • steely-hearted — hard-hearted
  • stretchability — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
  • supply teacher — A supply teacher is a teacher whose job is to take the place of other teachers at different schools when they are unable to be there.
  • surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
  • sycophantishly — in a sycophantish manner
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • symphonic poem — a form of tone poem, scored for a symphony orchestra, in which a literary or pictorial “plot” is treated with considerable program detail: originated by Franz Liszt in the mid-19th century and developed especially by Richard Strauss.
  • synchronically — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
  • synchronoscope — synchroscope.
  • synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
  • synthesization — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
  • synthetic fuel — fuel in the form of liquid or gas (synthetic natural gas) manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
  • syrian hamster — golden hamster.
  • systems theory — an approach to industrial relations which likens the enterprise to an organism with interdependent parts, each with its own specific function and interrelated responsibilities
  • thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
  • that is to say — in other words
  • the july sales — a traditional retail event occurring in the month of July, when shops sell things at less than their normal price
  • the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
  • the story goes — it is commonly said or believed
  • there's no way — If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
  • thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • thirty-seventh — next after the thirty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 37.
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