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15-letter words containing a, d, h, e, r, i

  • radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
  • raise the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • ray-finned fish — any of various bony fishes of the subclass Actinopterygii, having strong slender rays, excluding the coelacanth and lungfish.
  • read-write head — an electromagnetic device, as in a disk or tape drive, that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic disk or tape.
  • read/write head — an electromagnetic device, as in a disk or tape drive, that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic disk or tape.
  • reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
  • ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
  • red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • rheinland-pfalz — German name of Rhineland-Palatinate.
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • richard gabriel — (person)   (Dick, RPG) Dr. Richard P. Gabriel. A noted SAIL LISP hacker and volleyball fanatic. Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Richard Gabriel is a leader in the Lisp and OOP community, with years of contributions to standardisation. He founded the successful company, Lucid Technologies, Inc.. In 1996 he was Distinguished Computer Scientist at ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. (later renamed ObjectShare, Inc.). See also gabriel, Qlambda, QLISP, saga.
  • richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • scared shitless — terrified
  • security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • shire highlands — an upland area of S Malawi. Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
  • socratic method — the use of questions, as employed by Socrates, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil, or to elicit admissions, as from an opponent, tending to establish a proposition.
  • sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • soldier's heart — cardiac neurosis.
  • sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
  • spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
  • standing charge — fixed energy costs
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
  • 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
  • the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • third amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing that the forced quartering of soldiers in private homes would be prohibited in peacetime and allowed only by prescribed law during wartime.
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • thyroid extract — the powdered preparation made from the thyroid gland of certain animals, used to treat hypothyroidism
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • to hit the road — If you hit the road, you set out on a journey.
  • uncharacterized — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
  • unrehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • vindhya pradesh — a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.
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