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15-letter words containing s, u, h, a

  • south australia — a state in S Australia. 380,070 sq. mi. (984,380 sq. km). Capital: Adelaide.
  • south caucasian — a family of languages including Georgian, Mingrelian, and others that are spoken on the south slopes of the Caucasus and adjacent areas.
  • south china sea — a part of the W Pacific, bounded by SE China, Vietnam, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and the Philippines.
  • south glamorgan — a county in SE Wales. 161 sq. mi. (416 sq. km).
  • south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
  • south salt lake — a town in N Utah.
  • south-southeast — the point on the compass midway between south and southeast.
  • southeast asian — the countries and land area of Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southend-on-sea — a seaport in SE Essex, in SE England, on Thames estuary.
  • southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • souvanna phouma — Prince, 1901–84, Laotian statesman: premier 1951–54, 1956–58, 1960, and 1962–75.
  • spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
  • spinach-rhubarb — an Ethiopian plant, Rumex abyssinicus, of the buckwheat family, having leaves that are sometimes used as spinach and leafstalks sometimes used as rhubarb.
  • splanchnopleure — 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.
  • staggered hours — a system of working in which the employees of an organization do not all arrive and leave at the same time, but have large periods of overlap
  • stay the course — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
  • stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
  • 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
  • student teacher — a student who is studying to be a teacher and who, as part of the training, observes classroom instruction or does closely supervised teaching in an elementary or secondary school.
  • sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • 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.
  • suicide machine — a device designed to permit a terminally ill person to commit suicide, as by the automatic injection of a lethal drug.
  • sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
  • sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
  • sumatra camphor — borneol.
  • summer diarrhea — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
  • susan b anthony — Antony, Mark.
  • take issue with — disagree with
  • take one's hour — to do something in a leisurely manner
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the early hours — If something happens in the early hours, in the small hours, or in the wee hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the jos plateau — a plateau in Nigeria with an average altitude of 1280 metres
  • the last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
  • the midas touch — ability to make money
  • the small hours — If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the square mile — the area in central London in which the United Kingdom's major financial business is transacted
  • the upper ranks — the higher divisions of the armed forces
  • theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
  • thousand island — of or relating to the Thousand Islands or their inhabitants
  • thursday island — an island in Torres Strait between NE Australia and New Guinea; part of Queensland: pearl fishing. 1½ sq. mi. (4 sq. km).
  • tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • to err is human — If you say that to err is human, you mean that it is natural for human beings to make mistakes.
  • touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
  • toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
  • trans-euphrates — a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey through Syria and Iraq, joining the Tigris to form the Shatt-al-Arab near the Persian Gulf. 1700 miles (2735 km) long.
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