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16-letter words containing d, a, g, h, e, s

  • kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
  • lightheartedness — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • long-established — having a long history; old
  • manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
  • maremma sheepdog — a large strongly-built sheepdog of a breed with a long, slightly wavy, white coat
  • mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • oligosaccharides — Plural form of oligosaccharide.
  • ranelagh gardens — a public garden in Chelsea opened in 1742: a centre for members of fashionable society to meet and promenade. The gardens were closed in 1804
  • registered share — a stock registered to the owner's name
  • saddle stitching — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • school-age child — a child who is old enough to go to school
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • sex-and-shopping — (of a novel) belonging to a genre of novel in which the central character, a woman, has a number of sexual encounters, and the author mentions the name of many up-market products
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • special handling — (in the U.S. Postal Service) the handling of third- and fourth-class mail as first-class upon the payment of a fee.
  • stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • standard english — the English language in its most widely accepted form, as written and spoken by educated people in both formal and informal contexts, having universal currency while incorporating regional differences.
  • static discharge — Static discharge is the release of static electricity when two objects touch each other.
  • strain hardening — a process in which a metal is permanently deformed in order to increase its resistance to further deformation
  • student teaching — the act of teaching in a school for a limited period under supervision as part of a course to qualify as a teacher
  • the red brigades — a group of urban guerrillas, based in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–78) in 1978
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the scots guards — a regiment of Guards Division of the British Army which dates back to 1642
  • vauxhall gardens — a public garden at Vauxhall, laid out in 1661; a fashionable meeting place and site of lavish entertainments. Closed in 1859
  • wild goose chase — a wild or absurd search for something nonexistent or unobtainable: a wild-goose chase looking for a building long demolished.
  • wild-goose chase — a wild or absurd search for something nonexistent or unobtainable: a wild-goose chase looking for a building long demolished.
  • woody nightshade — bittersweet (def 3).
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