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14-letter words containing d, e, h, r

  • sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • simple-hearted — free of deceit; artless; sincere.
  • single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
  • smothered mate — checkmate delivered by a knight when the king's mobility is restricted by his own pieces.
  • soldier orchid — a European orchid, Orchis militaris, having pale purple flowers with a four-lobed lower lip
  • soldiers' home — an institution that provides care and shelter for retired soldiers.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • southeastwards — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
  • southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
  • southwestwards — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
  • spanish dagger — a stemless or short-trunked plant, Yucca gloriosa, of the agave family, native to the southeastern U.S., having leaves nearly 2½ feet (75 cm) long, with a stiff, sharp point, and greenish-white or reddish flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide.
  • speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
  • spider phaeton — (formerly) a light horse-drawn carriage with a high body and large slender wheels
  • spotted orchid — any of various common Eurasian orchids, esp the heath and common spotted orchids (Dactylorhiza maculata and D. fuchsii). The flowers are variable but usually have dark blotches
  • starch-reduced — (of food, esp bread) having the starch content reduced, as in proprietary slimming products
  • steely-hearted — hard-hearted
  • straight-ahead — not deviating from what is usual or expected; conventional or traditional; standard: a straight-ahead novel with a happy ending.
  • 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)
  • striped gopher — a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
  • studio theatre — a small theatre within which the stage and seating can usually be rearranged
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
  • 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.
  • teeth grinding — habitual, purposeless clenching and grinding of the teeth, especially during sleep.
  • tender-hearted — soft-hearted; sympathetic.
  • terpin hydrate — a white, crystalline powder, C 10 H 20 O 2 ⋅H 2 O, usually used in combination with codeine, as an expectorant.
  • terraced house — A terraced house or a terrace house is one of a row of similar houses joined together by their side walls.
  • tetraethyllead — a colorless, oily, water-insoluble, poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5) 4 Pb, used as an antiknock agent in gasoline.
  • the cordeliers — a political club founded in 1790 and meeting at an old Cordelier convent in Paris
  • the dead heart — the remote interior of Australia
  • the deerhunter — a film (1978) about the Vietnam War, directed by Michael Cimino and starring Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken
  • the depression — the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
  • the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
  • the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
  • the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
  • the free world — the non-Communist countries collectively, esp those that are actively anti-Communist
  • the gender gap — the difference in the attitudes, behaviour, abilities, etc, of men and women, or boys and girls
  • the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
  • the lesser dog — the constellation Canis Minor
  • the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
  • the real world — if you talk about the real world, you are referring to the world and life in general, in contrast to a particular person's own life, experience, and ideas, which may seem untypical and unrealistic
  • the red guards — a radical political movement of civilian youths in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution
  • the upper body — the part of the body above the waist
  • the upper hand — If you have the upper hand in a situation, you have more power than the other people involved and can make decisions about what happens.
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