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15-letter words containing s, t, h, b

  • saint elizabeth — the wife of Zacharias, mother of John the Baptist, and kinswoman of the Virgin Mary. Feast day: Nov 5 or 8
  • see the back of — to be rid of
  • self-banishment — to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile: He was banished to Devil's Island.
  • self-exhibition — an exhibiting, showing, or presenting to view.
  • set by the ears — to cause disagreement or commotion
  • she'll be right — that's all right; not to worry
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
  • shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
  • short of breath — If you are short of breath, you find it difficult to breathe properly, for example because you are ill. You can also say that someone suffers from shortness of breath.
  • show to a table — When you show a customer to a table in a restaurant, you take them to the table where you want them to sit and help them sit down.
  • six of the best — six strokes with a cane on the buttocks or hand
  • smallmouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus dolomieu, yellowish-green above and lighter below, having the lower jaw extending to the eye.
  • soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
  • southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
  • spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.
  • spill the beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
  • spin the bottle — a game in which someone spins a bottle and receives a kiss from the person at whom the bottle points on coming to rest.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
  • strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • 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
  • substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • susan b anthony — Antony, Mark.
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
  • swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
  • synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the lost tribes — the ten tribes deported from the N kingdom of Israel in 721 bc and believed never to have returned to Palestine
  • the tall blacks — the international basketball team of New Zealand
  • the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
  • the-sketch-book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
  • thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • thromboembolism — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.
  • tortoise brooch — a domed, oval brooch worn in pairs by Viking women.
  • touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
  • troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
  • turn the tables — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
  • uninhibitedness — the state or quality of being uninhibited
  • unteachableness — the quality or condition of being unteachable
  • vegetable sheep — any of various species of the genus Raoulia, esp R. mammillaris or R. eximia, of New Zealand rocky mountains: a small low bush having white flowers and hairy leaves which, from a distance, make it look like a sheep
  • west palm beach — a city in SE Florida: winter resort.
  • whistle-blowing — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
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