18-letter words containing sh
- highbush blueberry — a spreading, bushy shrub, Vaccinium corymbosum, of eastern North America, having small, urn-shaped, white or pinkish flowers, and bluish-black edible fruit, growing about 10 feet (3 meters) high.
- highbush cranberry — a shrub, Viburnum trilobum, of northern North America, having broad clusters of white flowers and edible scarlet berries.
- in another's shoes — in another's position
- in someone's shoes — an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- in with a shout of — If you say that someone is in with a shout of achieving or winning something, you mean that they have a chance of achieving or winning it.
- inter-relationship — reciprocal relation.
- interrelationships — Plural form of interrelationship.
- keep your shirt on — refrain from losing your temper (often used as an exhortation to another)
- kirkcudbrightshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- logical shift left — logical shift
- lubber grasshopper — plains grasshopper.
- make short work of — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- movers and shakers — a person or thing that moves.
- multiple ownership — ownership by several people or organizations
- negative cash flow — the situation when income is less than payments
- north bedfordshire — a city in Bedfordshire, in central England.
- north lincolnshire — a unitary authority of NE England, in Lincolnshire: formerly (1975–96) part of the county of Humberside. Pop: 155 000 (2003 est). Area: 1497 sq km (578 sq miles)
- not by a long shot — absolutely not
- old curiosity shop — a novel (1840–41) by Dickens.
- oriental shorthair — any of a breed of domestic cat, similar to the Siamese but with greenish eyes and often a coat of a solid color
- pairs championship — an event in a sport such as tennis or darts open to pairs of competitors
- perish the thought — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- phase-shift keying — (communications) (PSK) A digital modulation scheme that conveys data by changing the phase of a carrier wave. The data can either determine the absolute phase relative to the unmodulated carrier or reference signal ("coherent phase-shift keying", CPSK) or the change in phase ("differential phase-shift keying", DPSK). The number of different phases used determines the amount of data that can be transmitted in each cycle. Each cycle can be considered to constitute one "symbol", e.g. with two possible phases, each cycle carries one bit. The more phases that are used, the less tollerant to noise the transmissions becomes. Alternatives to PSK are amplitude-shift keying (ASK) and frequency-shift keying (FSK).
- pine tree shilling — a silver coin minted in Massachusetts in the mid to late 17th century, named for the pine tree within a circle shown on the obverse side.
- pitch-and-run shot — chip shot.
- plains grasshopper — a large, destructive short-horned grasshopper, Brachystola magna, of the western U.S., marked by pinkish hind wings.
- prerelease showing — a showing of a film before it goes on general release
- prime-ministership — the principal minister and head of government in parliamentary systems; chief of the cabinet or ministry: the British prime minister.
- publishing company — a firm which publishes books
- punishment beating — a form of corporal punishment carried out by a paramilitary organization on a member of another sectarian organization, usually in Northern Ireland
- put one's shirt on — to bet all one has on (a horse, etc)
- reverse angle shot — Movies. reverse shot.
- rhodes scholarship — one of a number of scholarships at Oxford University, established by the will of Cecil Rhodes, for selected students (Rhodes scholars) from the British Commonwealth and the United States.
- rock cornish (hen) — Cornish (sense 3) Cornish (sense 3b)
- rub shoulders with — to mix with socially or associate with
- rubbish collection — the collection of domestic refuse for disposal
- saint peter's fish — another name for tilapia, taken from a Bible story about Saint Peter catching a fish with a coin in its mouth
- scholarship holder — a person who, because of academic merit, receives financial aid for their studies
- scottish blackface — a common breed of hardy mountain sheep having horns and a black face, kept chiefly on the mainland of Scotland
- scottish deerhound — one of a Scottish breed of large, tall hunting dogs having a medium-length, wiry, gray or reddish-fawn coat, originally developed for hunting and bringing down deer, and known as the royal dog of Scotland.
- scottish secretary — the Secretary of State for Scotland, head of the Scotland Office, a UK government department with responsibility for some Scottish affairs
- self-extinguishing — to put out (a fire, light, etc.); put out the flame of (something burning or lighted): to extinguish a candle.
- sell oneself short — If you sell someone short, you do not point out their good qualities as much as you should or do as much for them as you should.
- shaggy dog (story) — a long, rambling joke, typically involving ludicrously unreal or irrational behavior and usually having an irrelevant conclusion
- shape-note singing — a traditional style of a capella singing using shape-note notation.
- sharp-shinned hawk — a North American hawk, Accipiter striatus, having extremely slender legs, a bluish-gray back, and a white, rusty-barred breast.
- shatterproof glass — glass designed to resist shattering
- sheltered workshop — a place of employment for persons with disabilities where their rights are protected and their needs are met.
- shepherd satellite — a small moon orbiting near a planetary ring, whose gravitational pull helps confine the ring and the ring's extent.
- shift one's ground — to change one's argument or defense