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17-letter words containing s, l, u, h

  • lighthouse keeper — a person who mans a lighthouse and makes sure that the light is working properly
  • liquidity cushion — a reserve fund of assets held by a company or person
  • lowbush blueberry — a shrub, Vaccinium angustifolium, of eastern North America, having small, white flowers and blue-black fruit.
  • mail users' shell — (messaging)   (mush) A MUA for Unix and MS-DOS. It has both line-mode and full-screen interfaces as well as a SunView interface. mush provides a very powerful shell interface with a csh-like scripting language, plenty of environment variables, command-line aliases, filename completion, conditionals, and command piping.
  • make the dust fly — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
  • mechanical tissue — a plant tissue made up of hard, thick-walled cells that add strength to an organ
  • medium close shot — a shot taken fairly close to the subject, but not as close as a close-up
  • mercuric sulphide — a compound of mercury, usually existing as a black solid (metacinnabarite) or a red solid (cinnabar or vermilion), which is used as a pigment. Formula: HgS
  • more than usually — You use more than usually to show that something shows even more of a particular quality than it normally does.
  • muscle dysmorphia — a mental disorder primarily affecting males, characterized by obsessions about a perceived lack of muscularity, leading to compulsive exercising, use of anabolic steroids, etc. Compare body dysmorphic disorder.
  • narrow-shouldered — having shoulders which do not extend very far from the neck; not broad-shouldered
  • natural harmonics — harmonics of a note produced on a stringed instrument by lightly touching an open or unstopped sounded string.
  • neo-malthusianism — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
  • neurophysiologist — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • neuropsychologist — A neurologist or psychologist whose speciality is neuropsychology.
  • nicholas bourbaki — the pseudonym of a group of mainly French mathematicians that, since 1939, has been producing a monumental work on advanced mathematics, Eléments de Mathématique
  • nuclear chemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with nuclear reactions
  • nuclear threshold — the point in war at which a combatant brings nuclear weapons into use
  • old south arabian — a group of four closely related Semitic languages, having a writing system and used from about the eighth to the fifth centuries b.c. in the southern part of Arabia.
  • out at the elbows — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • out of this world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • parker house roll — a soft dinner roll made by folding a flat disk of dough in half.
  • penalty shoot-out — In football, a penalty shoot-out is a way of deciding the result of a game that has ended in a draw. Players from each team try to score a goal in turn until one player fails to score and their team loses the game.
  • perpetual spinach — a variety of spinach that keeps producing edible leaves
  • phlebotomus fever — sandfly fever.
  • photoluminescence — luminescence induced by the absorption of infrared radiation, visible light, or ultraviolet radiation.
  • physical pendulum — any apparatus consisting of a body of possibly irregular shape allowed to rotate freely about a horizontal axis on which it is pivoted (distinguished from simple pendulum).
  • pincushion flower — scabious2 (def 1).
  • ploughman's lunch — a light lunch consisting of bread and cheese, and sometimes pickled onions.
  • plug and feathers — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
  • pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudo-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • psychoeducational — designating or of psychological methods, as intelligence tests, used in evaluating learning ability
  • psycholinguistics — the study of the relationship between language and the cognitive or behavioral characteristics of those who use it.
  • pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
  • purple shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • push the envelope — a flat paper container, as for a letter or thin package, usually having a gummed flap or other means of closure.
  • push-pull circuit — a circuit using two similar electronic devices, such as matched valves, made to operate 180° out of phase with each other
  • put on the gloves — to box
  • run short/run low — If you are running short of something or running low on something, you do not have much of it left. If a supply of something is running short or running low, there is not much of it left.
  • russian wolfhound — borzoi.
  • say the unsayable — to express an opinion thought to be too controversial to mention
  • school counsellor — a counsellor who is based in a school
  • school playground — school's outdoor recreation area
  • scrophulariaceous — belonging to the Scrophulariaceae, the figwort family of plants.
  • settlement houses — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
  • sexual dimorphism — the condition in which the males and females in a species are morphologically different, as with many birds.
  • sexual harassment — unwelcome sexual advances made by an employer or superior, especially when compliance is made a condition of continued employment or advancement.
  • sheltered housing — accommodation designed esp for the elderly or infirm consisting of a group of individual premises, often with some shared facilities and a caretaker
  • shetland pullover — a thick woollen sweater made from Shetland wool
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