14-letter words containing d, a, c, h, e
- stand the pace — to keep up with the speed or rate of others
- starch-reduced — (of food, esp bread) having the starch content reduced, as in proprietary slimming products
- straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
- sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
- teacher's aide — A teacher's aide is a person who helps a teacher in a school classroom but who is not a qualified teacher.
- teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
- terraced house — A terraced house or a terrace house is one of a row of similar houses joined together by their side walls.
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- thiacetic acid — thioacetic acid.
- trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- under-achiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
- under-research — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
- underhand chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop where the axeman stands on the log, which is placed on the ground
- v-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall followed by a correspondingly sharp rise
- wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).
- with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.