15-letter words containing her
- number cruncher — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
- number-cruncher — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
- old father time — time personified
- omnium gatherum — a miscellaneous collection.
- omnium-gatherum — a miscellaneous collection.
- paroemiographer — a person who writes or collects proverbs
- peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
- petroleum ether — a volatile mixture of the higher alkane hydrocarbons, obtained as a fraction of petroleum and used as a solvent
- pharmacotherapy — the treatment of disease through the administration of drugs.
- physiotherapist — physical therapy.
- pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
- poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
- primary feather — any of the flight feathers growing from the manus of a bird's wing
- primary teacher — a teacher in a primary school
- psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- release therapy — psychotherapy in which the patient finds emotional release in the expression of hostilities and emotional conflicts.
- reverend mother — a title of respect or form of address for the Mother Superior of a convent
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- rollmop herring — a herring fillet rolled, usually around onion slices, and pickled in spiced vinegar
- ruffle feathers — to cause upset or offence
- rutherford atom — the atom postulated as analogous to the solar system, with electrons revolving around a small, central, positive nucleus that constitutes practically the entire mass of the atom
- saffian leather — leather made of sheepskin or goatskin tanned with sumac and usually dyed a bright color
- scrape together — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- sherlock holmes — a fictitious British detective with great powers of deduction, the main character in many stories by A. Conan Doyle
- sherwood forest — an ancient royal forest in central England, chiefly in Nottinghamshire: the traditional haunt of Robin Hood.
- singing teacher — a teacher who gives instruction in how to sing
- social heritage — the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
- southern gothic — a literary genre depicting life in the southern US and featuring grotesque themes and imagery
- southern lights — aurora australis.
- southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
- spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
- spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
- st. christopher — Saint, died a.d. c250, Christian martyr.
- stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
- stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
- string together — arrange coherently
- 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.
- substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
- tar and feather — any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- telethermometer — any of various thermometers that indicate or record temperatures at a distance, as by means of an electric current.
- thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
- thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
- the netherlands — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
- the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
- the other thing — an unexpressed alternative