15-letter words containing s, o, t, h, f
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
- get hold of sth — If you get hold of an object or information, you obtain it, usually after some difficulty.
- get the best of — to surpass, defeat, or outwit; better
- ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
- ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
- guest of honour — If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.
- half-understood — partially understood
- heart of hearts — the depths of one's conscience or emotions
- help oneself to — to serve or provide oneself with (food, etc.)
- hoffman estates — a city in NE Illinois.
- hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
- housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
- housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- if nothing else — You can say 'if nothing else' to indicate that what you are mentioning is, in your opinion, the only good thing in a particular situation.
- in spite of sth — You use in spite of to introduce a fact which makes the rest of the statement you are making seem surprising.
- in the hands of — under the control of
- in the midst of — amid, among
- in the shape of — You can use in the shape of to state exactly who or what you are referring to, immediately after referring to them in a general way.
- infants' school — kindergarten.
- isthmus of suez — a strip of land in NE Egypt, between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea: links Africa and Asia and is crossed by the Suez Canal
- john of austria — ("Don John") 1547?–78, Spanish naval commander and general: victor at the battle of Lepanto.
- kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- multiphase flow — Multiphase flow is a type of flow that involves more than one fluid, for example a liquid and a gas, or two liquids that do not mix.
- multnomah falls — a waterfall on Multnomah Creek in NW Oregon, E of Portland. 611 feet (186 meters) high.
- oil of the sick — holy oil used in the sacrament of extreme unction.
- on the heels of — the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- one of the boys — If a man is described as one of the boys, he is accepted by a group of male friends who do things that are thought of as typically masculine.
- out of sight of — not in sight
- oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
- rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- right of search — the privilege of a nation at war to search neutral ships on the high seas for contraband or other matter, carried in violation of neutrality, that may subject the ship to seizure.
- round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
- schottky defect — an unoccupied position in a crystal lattice caused by the relocation of an atom or ion from the interior to the surface of the crystal.
- schottky effect — a reduction in the energy required to remove an electron from a solid surface in a vacuum when an electric field is applied to the surface
- scotch foursome — foursome (def 2b).
- see the back of — to be rid of
- see the last of — to see for the last time
- self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
- self-exhibition — an exhibiting, showing, or presenting to view.
- self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
- self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.