13-letter words containing a, h, n, d, s
- in the saddle — a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.
- indian physic — American ipecac.
- judah ha-nasi — Judah, Judah ha-Nasi.
- judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
- kidney-shaped — having the general shape of a long oval indented at one side; reniform: a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- landsmanshaft — a fraternal organization made up of immigrants from the same region.
- list enhanced — (operating system, tool) An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
- load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
- maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
- merchandisers — Plural form of merchandiser.
- merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
- mohammedanism — Muhammadanism; Islam.
- more hands on — characterized by or involved in active personal participation in an activity; individual and direct: a workshop to give children hands-on experience with computers.
- muhammadanism — Islam.
- nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
- new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
- niedersachsen — German name of Lower Saxony.
- northeastward — the northeast.
- northwestward — the northwest.
- offhandedness — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
- ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
- on one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- open and shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- open-and-shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
- parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
- passchendaele — a village in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: the scene of heavy fighting during the third battle of Ypres in World War I during which 245 000 British troops were lost
- pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
- phase encoded — (storage) (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
- phong shading — (graphics) A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
- phony disease — a disease of peaches, characterized by dwarfing, dark-green leaves, premature leafing and flowering, and the production of reduced numbers of small fruit, caused by a virus, Nanus mirabilis.
- photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
- prosthodontia — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
- psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- radhakrishnan — Sir Sarvepalli [suhr-vuh-puhl-ee] /ˌsʌr vəˈpʌl i/ (Show IPA), 1888–1975, president of India 1962–67.
- resident head — someone who is charge of running and supervising a student residence
- rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
- sadie hawkins — Also called Sadie, Sadies. a party, dance, or other social event, especially one held annually among high school or college students, to which each girl escorts the boy of her choice, or invites him to escort her.
- sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht