15-letter words containing s, w, e, t, h
- shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
- sherwood forest — an ancient royal forest in central England, chiefly in Nottinghamshire: the traditional haunt of Robin Hood.
- shoot one's wad — a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
- shoot the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- short and sweet — having little length; not long.
- short-eared owl — a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- 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.
- software method — Software Methodology
- solenoid switch — A solenoid switch is an electrical switch that is often used where a high current circuit, such as a starter motor circuit, is brought into operation by a low current switch.
- south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- south-southwest — the point on the compass midway between south and southwest.
- southeastwardly — toward the southeast
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- spread the word — make others aware
- starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
- stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
- stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
- stone the crows — an expression of surprise, dismay, etc
- 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.
- swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- sweet chocolate — cocoa product with high sugar content
- sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
- symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
- take issue with — disagree with
- test the waters — assess or evaluate sth
- thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
- the cesarewitch — a long-distance horserace run each year in October at Newmarket racecourse
- the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
- the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
- the whole shoot — everything
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
- towers of hanoi — (games) A classic computer science problem, invented by Edouard Lucas in 1883, often used as an example of recursion. "In the great temple at Benares, says he, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee. On one of these needles, at the creation, God placed sixty-four discs of pure gold, the largest disc resting on the brass plate, and the others getting smaller and smaller up to the top one. This is the Tower of Bramah. Day and night unceasingly the priests transfer the discs from one diamond needle to another according to the fixed and immutable laws of Bramah, which require that the priest on duty must not move more than one disc at a time and that he must place this disc on a needle so that there is no smaller disc below it. When the sixty-four discs shall have been thus transferred from the needle on which at the creation God placed them to one of the other needles, tower, temple, and Brahmins alike will crumble into dust, and with a thunderclap the world will vanish." The recursive solution is: Solve for n-1 discs recursively, then move the remaining largest disc to the free needle. Note that there is also a non-recursive solution: On odd-numbered moves, move the smallest sized disk clockwise. On even-numbered moves, make the single other move which is possible.
- training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
- trustworthiness — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
- twist the knife — to make a bad situation worse in a deliberately malicious way
- two-thirds rule — a former rule in the Democratic Party, effective 1832–1936, requiring a vote of at least two thirds of its national convention delegates to nominate a presidential and vice-presidential candidate.
- unseaworthiness — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- walrus mustache — a thick, shaggy mustache hanging down loosely at both ends.
- warmheartedness — The quality of being warmhearted.
- weather station — an installation equipped and used for meteorological observation.
- wentworth scale — a scale for specifying the sizes (diameters) of sedimentary particles, ranging from clay particles (less than 1⁄256 mm) to boulders (over 256 mm)
- west hartlepool — a former borough, now part of Hartlepool, in Cleveland County, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tees.
- west palm beach — a city in SE Florida: winter resort.
- western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
- westphalian ham — a hard German ham with a distinctive flavor derived from being smoked over beechwood and juniper.