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16-letter words containing s, p, h

  • showcase project — a project designed to attract attention and show off the abilities of the people involved in it
  • showy crab apple — a large Japanese bush or tree, Malus floribunda, of the rose family, having red fruit and rose-colored flowers that fade to white.
  • shutter priority — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.
  • shutter-priority — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.
  • slap in the face — smack on the cheek
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • so help me (god) — I swear
  • social pathology — a social factor, as poverty, old age, or crime, that tends to increase social disorganization and inhibit personal adjustment.
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • sodium phosphate — Also called monobasic sodium phosphate. a white, crystalline, slightly hygroscopic, water-soluble powder, NaH 2 PO 4 , used chiefly in dyeing and in electroplating.
  • soft pornography — soft-core pornography.
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spaghetti squash — a variety of a widely cultivated squash, Cucurbita pepo, having edible flesh in the form of spaghettilike strands.
  • spanish bluebell — a bulbous plant, Endymion hispanicus, of the lily family, native to Spain and Portugal, having blue, white, or pink, bell-shaped flowers.
  • spanish chestnut — Castanea sativa
  • spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
  • spanish moroccan — of or relating to the former Spanish colony of Spanish Morocco (now part of Morocco) or its inhabitants
  • spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
  • spanish windlass — a stick used as a device for twisting and tightening a rope or cable
  • spanish-american — noting or pertaining to the parts of America where Spanish is the prevailing language.
  • spear-head spoon — diamond-point spoon.
  • special handling — (in the U.S. Postal Service) the handling of third- and fourth-class mail as first-class upon the payment of a fee.
  • spectrochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical analysis of substances by means of the spectra of light they absorb or emit.
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • speech community — the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
  • speech pathology — the scientific study and treatment of defects, disorders, and malfunctions of speech and voice, as stuttering, lisping, or lalling, and of language disturbances, as aphasia or delayed language acquisition.
  • speech synthesis — computer-generated audio output that imitates human speech
  • speech therapist — sb who treats speaking disorders
  • spherical excess — the difference between the sum of the angles of a spherical triangle and two right angles.
  • sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • spin the platter — a game in which one member of a group spins a platter on its edge and a designated member must catch it before it falls or pay a forfeit.
  • spiny-rayed fish — any of various fishes, as basses and perches, that have sharp, often pointed and usually rigid fin spines.
  • spiritual healer — a faith healer
  • splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
  • splanchnopleural — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • spongy-mesophyll — the lower layer of the ground tissue of a leaf, characteristically containing irregularly shaped cells with relatively few chloroplasts and large intercellular spaces.
  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
  • spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
  • spreader-ditcher — a machine for shaping and cleaning roadbeds and ditches and for freeing tracks of ice and snow by plowing and digging.
  • spring ephemeral — any of various woodland wildflowers that appear above ground in early spring, flower and fruit, and die in a short two-month period.
  • stannic sulphide — an insoluble solid compound of tin usually existing as golden crystals or as a yellowish-brown powder: used as a pigment. Formula: SnS2
  • stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
  • stephen f austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
  • still photograph — a photograph taken from a cinema film which is used for publicity purposes
  • stomach stapling — Stomach stapling is an operation in which part of the stomach is removed in order to help a person to eat less and lose weight.
  • stretch receptor — muscle spindle.
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