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16-letter words containing s, h

  • tension headache — a headache caused by muscle tension resulting from stress or overwork
  • thaddeus stevens — Alfred, 1817–75, English painter and sculptor.
  • thallium sulfate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, Tl 2 SO 4 , used chiefly as an insecticide and rodenticide.
  • thanksgiving day — a national holiday celebrated as a day of feasting and giving thanks for divine favors or goodness, observed on the fourth Thursday of November in the U.S. and in Canada on the second Monday of October.
  • that's as may be — even so
  • that's the stuff — that is what is needed
  • the amazon basin — the catchment area of the River Amazon
  • the barren lands — a region of tundra in N Canada, extending westwards from Hudson Bay: sparsely inhabited, chiefly by Inuit
  • the beaver state — a name for the state of Oregon
  • the best part of — most of
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
  • the christ child — a very reverential way of referring to Jesus Christ as a child, used particularly when referring to art
  • the constitution — the document containing the fundamental laws of the United States: it consists of the seven original articles, adopted in 1789, and twenty-seven amendments
  • the cotton state — a nickname for Alabama
  • the creole state — a nickname for Louisiana
  • the cuckoo's egg — A great book (and subsequent BBC TV series) telling the true story of Clifford Stoll, an astronomy professor at UCB's Lawrence Berkeley Lab. A 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorised user (a cracker) on his system. The cracker, code named "Hunter", was breaking into US computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. Hunter was part of a spy ring paid in cash and cocaine, and reporting to the KGB.
  • the dispossessed — people who have had property or possessions taken away
  • the dust settles — If you say that something will happen when the dust settles, you mean that a situation will be clearer after it has calmed down. If you let the dust settle before doing something, you let a situation calm down before you try to do anything else.
  • the easter bunny — the rabbit that brings Easter eggs
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the easy way out — least demanding solution
  • the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • the first family — a President's family
  • the first fruits — The first fruits or the first fruit of a project or activity are its earliest results or profits.
  • the gospel truth — the unquestionable truth
  • the great escape — a film (1963) directed by John Sturges, written by James Clavell and W.R. Burnett, based on a book by Paul Brickhill, and starring Steve McQueen. It follows an attempt made by Allied prisoners of war to escape a German prisoner of war camp during World War II
  • the great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • the great powers — the states or nations of the world with the most economic, political and military strength
  • the green berets — a force of the US army also known as the United States Army Special Forces. Their missions included counter-terrorism and internal defense, and the troops are trained for guerrilla warfare
  • the heavens open — If the heavens open, it suddenly starts raining very heavily.
  • the home nations — the countries that make up the United Kingdom: England, N. Ireland, Scotland & Wales
  • the honor system — a reliance on people to behave properly without supervision
  • the lion's share — the largest portion
  • the marseillaise — the French national anthem. Words and music were composed in 1792 by C. J. Rouget de Lisle as a war song for the Rhine army of revolutionary France
  • the mendip hills — a range of limestone hills in SW England, in N Somerset: includes the Cheddar Gorge and numerous caves. Highest point: 325 m (1068 ft)
  • the missing link — a hypothetical extinct animal or animal group, formerly thought to be intermediate between the anthropoid apes and man
  • the morn's nicht — tomorrow night
  • the noes have it — there is a majority of votes in the negative
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the opposite sex — women in relation to men or men in relation to women
  • the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
  • the public purse — money from or controlled by the government
  • the red brigades — a group of urban guerrillas, based in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–78) in 1978
  • the renosterveld — an area of high altitude in SW South Africa, having fertile ground
  • the resurrection — the rising of Jesus from the dead after his death and burial
  • the retired list — officers who have retired and are on a pension
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the scotch-irish — people of Scotch-Irish descent
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