16-letter words containing he
- scheduled castes — (in India) the official name given to the lower castes that are now protected by the government and offered special concessions.
- scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
- schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
- schoolteacherish — showing characteristics thought to be typical of a schoolteacher, as strictness and primness.
- scratch together — to assemble with difficulty
- seleucia trachea — an ancient city in SE Asia Minor, on the River Calycadnus (modern Goksu Nehri): captured by the Turks in the 13th century; site of present-day Silifke (Turkey)
- shake one's head — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- sheepskin jacket — a short jacket made of the skin of a sheep with the wool still attached to it
- sheet-web weaver — any of numerous spiders of the family Linyphiidae, characterized by a closely woven, sheetlike web.
- sheffer's stroke — a function of two sentences, equivalent to the negation of their conjunction, and written p|q (p and q are both not true) where p,q, are the arguments: p|q is false only when p,q are both true. It is possible to construct all truth functions out of this one alone
- sheffield shield — (in Australia) the former name for the trophy of the annual interstate cricket competition
- sheltering trust — a trust that provides a fund for a beneficiary, as a minor, with the title vested so that the fund or its income cannot be claimed by others, as creditors of the beneficiary.
- shemini atzereth — a Jewish festival celebrated on the 22nd day of Tishri, being the 8th day of Sukkoth: marked by a memorial service for the dead and prayers for rain in Israel.
- shepherd's check — a pattern of even checks, used in a variety of fabrics.
- shepherd's crook — hooked or curved stick
- shepherd's plaid — a checkered black and white pattern
- shepherd's-purse — a European weed, Capsella bursa-pastoris, having white flowers and purselike pods, naturalized in North America.
- ship of the line — a former sailing warship armed powerfully enough to serve in the line of battle, usually having cannons ranged along two or more decks; battleship.
- shoot the breeze — a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one.
- shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- show one's heels — to run away
- shut the door on — to refuse to think about
- silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
- sir herbert read — George, 1733–98, American political leader: served in the Continental Congress 1774–77.
- sit on the fence — to be unable or unwilling to commit oneself
- slap in the face — smack on the cheek
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- smack in the eye — a snub or setback
- so help me (god) — I swear
- social gathering — party, get-together
- soft in the head — stupid or foolish
- somehow or other — in an undetermined way
- sooty shearwater — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
- southerly buster — a sudden violent cold wind on the SE coast of Australia causing a rapid drop in temperature
- 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 chestnut — Castanea sativa
- spear-head spoon — diamond-point spoon.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- spiritual healer — a faith healer
- 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.
- st. lucie cherry — mahaleb.