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17-letter words containing a, d, o, l, s, h

  • in double harness — in a harness for two animals pulling the same carriage, plow, etc.
  • industrial school — a school for teaching one or more branches of industry; trade or vocational school.
  • integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
  • island of the sun — Sicily: the island where Helius kept his oxen.
  • lady of the house — the female head of a household (usually preceded by the).
  • lagrange's method — a procedure for finding maximum and minimum values of a function of several variables when the variables are restricted by additional conditions.
  • lake of the woods — Eldrick [el-drik] /ˈɛl drɪk/ (Show IPA), ("Tiger") born 1975, U.S. professional golfer.
  • lee harvey oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
  • light dawns on sb — If light dawns on you, you begin to understand something after a period of not being able to understand it.
  • loggerhead shrike — a common, North American shrike, Lanius ludovicianus, gray above and white below with black wings, tail, and facial mask.
  • lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
  • machado y morales — Gerardo [he-rahr-th aw] /hɛˈrɑr ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1939, president of Cuba 1925–33.
  • maintained school — a school financially supported by the state
  • muscle dysmorphia — a mental disorder primarily affecting males, characterized by obsessions about a perceived lack of muscularity, leading to compulsive exercising, use of anabolic steroids, etc. Compare body dysmorphic disorder.
  • narrow-shouldered — having shoulders which do not extend very far from the neck; not broad-shouldered
  • nuclear threshold — the point in war at which a combatant brings nuclear weapons into use
  • old south arabian — a group of four closely related Semitic languages, having a writing system and used from about the eighth to the fifth centuries b.c. in the southern part of Arabia.
  • old spanish trail — an overland route from Santa Fe, N. Mex., to Los Angeles, Calif., first marked out in 1776 by Spanish explorers and missionaries.
  • pseudo-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • psychoeducational — designating or of psychological methods, as intelligence tests, used in evaluating learning ability
  • rhode island bent — a European pasture grass, Agrostis tenuis, naturalized in North America, having red flower clusters.
  • russian wolfhound — borzoi.
  • san pedro channel — a strait between the mainland of SW California and Santa Catalina Island. About 20 miles (32 km) wide.
  • school attendance — a measure of the number of children who attend school and the amount of time they are present
  • school playground — school's outdoor recreation area
  • sexual dimorphism — the condition in which the males and females in a species are morphologically different, as with many birds.
  • shetland pullover — a thick woollen sweater made from Shetland wool
  • shetland sheepdog — one of a breed of small sheepdogs resembling a miniature collie, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • shopping bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shopping-bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shorthold tenancy — letting of a dwelling for between one and five years at a fair rent
  • shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
  • sinbad the sailor — a merchant in The Arabian Nights who makes seven adventurous voyages
  • smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • south sea islands — the islands in the S Pacific that constitute Oceania
  • square-shouldered — having the shoulders held back, giving a straight form to the upper part of the back.
  • stannous chloride — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, SnCl 2 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly as a reducing and tinning agent, and as a mordant in dyeing with cochineal.
  • statutory holiday — a public holiday; a holiday all workers are entitled to
  • sulfurated potash — a yellowish-brown mixture consisting mainly of potassium polysulfides and potassium thiosulfate, used in treating mange.
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • the good old days — When people refer to the good old days, they are referring to a time in the past when they think that life was better than it is now.
  • the life and soul — a person regarded as the main source of merriment and liveliness
  • the lord's prayer — the, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
  • the tabloid press — (considered as a whole) newspapers with pages about 30 cm (12 inches) by 40 cm (16 inches), usually characterized by an emphasis on photographs and a concise and often sensational style
  • thermal diffusion — the separation of constituents, often isotopes, of a fluid under the influence of a temperature gradient.
  • thiopental sodium — a barbiturate, C 11 H 18 N 2 NaO 2 S, used as an anesthetic in surgery and, in psychiatry, for narcoanalysis and to stimulate recall of past events.
  • thiosulfuric acid — an acid, H 2 S 2 O 3 , that may be regarded as sulfuric acid with one oxygen atom replaced by sulfur.
  • thousandths-place — last in order of a series of a thousand.
  • three-dimensional — having, or seeming to have, the dimension of depth as well as width and height.
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