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15-letter words containing s, i, g, h, t, e

  • schmitt trigger — a bistable circuit that gives a constant output when the input voltage is above a specified value
  • school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
  • scottish gaelic — the Gaelic of the Hebrides and the Highlands of Scotland, also spoken as a second language in Nova Scotia.
  • semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
  • serve one right — to act as a servant.
  • she'll be right — that's all right; not to worry
  • shearing strain — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.
  • shearing stress — a force causing two contacting parts or layers to slide upon each other, in opposite directions parallel to the plane of their contact
  • shearing-stress — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.
  • sheet lightning — lightning appearing merely as a general illumination over a broad area, usually because the path of the flash is obscured by clouds.
  • shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
  • shopping center — a group of stores within a single architectural plan, supplying most of the basic shopping needs, especially in suburban areas.
  • shopping centre — A shopping centre is a specially built area containing a lot of different shops.
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shunting engine — switch engine.
  • sign the pledge — to make a vow to abstain from alcoholic drink
  • singing teacher — a teacher who gives instruction in how to sing
  • skylight filter — a very slightly pink filter that absorbs ultraviolet light and reduces haze and excessive blueness
  • sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
  • social heritage — the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.
  • 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.
  • spaghetti strap — a thin, often rounded strip of fabric used in women's clothing, as to form a shoulder strap on a bare-shouldered garment.
  • speaking as sth — You can say 'speaking as a parent' or 'speaking as a teacher', for example, to indicate that the opinion you are giving is based on your experience as a parent or as a teacher.
  • speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
  • speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
  • sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
  • standing charge — fixed energy costs
  • start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • states' righter — a person who opposes U.S. federal intervention in affairs of the separate states, supporting this position by a strict interpretation of the Constitution of the U.S.
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • straight matter — the body text of an article, story, etc., as distinguished from the title, subhead, and other display matter.
  • straight ticket — a ballot on which all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • street fighting — violent and illegal fighting between individuals or groups
  • street lighting — the provision of lighting at night in public places to illuminate the streets
  • strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
  • string together — arrange coherently
  • strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the everlasting — God
  • the first thing — even one thing
  • the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
  • the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
  • thing-in-itself — reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. Compare noumenon (def 3).
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