16-letter words containing s, t, o, n, e, h
- harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
- have sb to thank — If you say that you have someone to thank for something, you mean that you are grateful to them because they caused it to happen.
- health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
- health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
- heat of solution — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance dissolves completely in a large volume of solvent
- heat prostration — heat exhaustion.
- hedge one's bets — If you hedge your bets, you reduce the risk of losing a lot by supporting more than one person or thing in a situation where they are opposed to each other.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
- hen of the woods — a large, grayish-brown, edible fungus, Polyporus frondosus, forming a mass of overlapping caps at the base of trees and somewhat resembling a hen.
- henley-on-thames — a city in SE Oxfordshire, in S England: annual rowing regatta.
- hepatopancreases — Plural form of hepatopancreas.
- hernando de soto — Hernando [her-nan-doh;; Spanish er-nahn-daw] /hərˈnæn doʊ;; Spanish ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), or Fernando [fer-nan-doh;; Spanish fer-nahn-daw] /fərˈnæn doʊ;; Spanish fɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), c1500–42, Spanish soldier and explorer in America.
- hesitation waltz — a waltz based on the frequent use of a step that consists of a pause and glide.
- heterosuggestion — Suggestion from outside.
- historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
- hit one's straps — to achieve one's full potential or become fully effective
- hit one's stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
- horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
- horseshoe magnet — a horseshoe-shaped permanent magnet.
- hospital corners — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
- household knight — bachelor (def 5).
- household-knight — an unmarried man.
- housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
- hypercorrections — Plural form of hypercorrection.
- hypercorrectness — The state or condition of being hypercorrect.
- hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
- hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
- icositetrahedron — a solid figure having 24 faces.
- immersion heater — a small electric coil used to heat a liquid, as a cup of water, in which it is immersed.
- immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
- in lockstep with — progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice
- in plain clothes — not wearing a uniform
- in the course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
- in the same boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- in the shadow of — very close to; verging upon
- in the short run — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- in the spotlight — prominently featured
- in the throes of — If you are in the throes of doing or experiencing something, especially something difficult, you are busy doing it or are deeply involved in it.
- in the worst way — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
- inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
- john the baptist — the forerunner and baptizer of Jesus. Matt. 3.
- josephson effect — a high-speed switch, used in experimental computers, that operates on the basis of a radiative phenomenon (Jo·sephson effect) exhibited by a pair of superconductors separated by a thin insulator.
- judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- keratoacanthomas — Plural form of keratoacanthoma.
- lead by the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- lighthouse point — a city in NW Florida.
- lightning stroke — a discharge of lightning between a cloud and the earth, esp one that causes damage
- lonely hearts ad — an advertisement placed by someone who is trying to find a lover or a friend