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22-letter words containing d, e, r, c, h, o

  • school medical officer — a doctor who is based in a school and is responsible for the health of schoolchildren
  • second-hand bookseller — a person who has a second-hand bookshop
  • secretary to the board — the secretary to the board of directors; company secretary
  • short end of the stick — a branch or shoot of a tree or shrub that has been cut or broken off.
  • southern redbelly dace — any of the small, brightly colored North American freshwater cyprinids, especially Phoxinus oreas (northern redbelly dace) and P. erythrogaster (southern redbelly dace)
  • standard scratch score — the number of strokes a scratch player would need to go round a particular course, based on the length of each hole to the green and allowing 36 putts for the round
  • the grand remonstrance — the document prepared by the Long Parliament in 1640 listing the evils of the king's government, the abuses already rectified, and the reforms Parliament advocated
  • the medical profession — the occupation of working as a doctor of medicine
  • thiamine-hydrochloride — a white, crystalline, water-soluble compound of the vitamin-B complex, containing a thiazole and a pyrimidine group, C 12 H 17 ClN 4 OS, essential for normal functioning of the nervous system, a deficiency of which results chiefly in beriberi and other nerve disorders: occurring in many natural sources, as green peas, liver, and especially the seed coats of cereal grains, the commercial product of which is chiefly synthesized in the form of its chloride (thiamine chloride or thiamine hydrochloride) for therapeutic administration, or in nitrate form (thiamine mononitrate) for enriching flour mixes.
  • under the influence of — If you are under the influence of someone or something, you are being affected or controlled by them.
  • united reformed church — (in England and Wales) a Protestant denomination formed from the union of the Presbyterian and Congregational churches in 1972
  • video graphics adapter — Video Graphics Array
  • video graphics adaptor — Video Graphics Array
  • whitworth screw thread — a thread form and system of standard sizes, proposed by Whitworth in 1841 and adopted as standard in the U.K., having a flank angle of 55° and a rounded top and foot
  • wrong end of the stick — a complete misunderstanding of a situation, explanation, etc
  • yellow-shafted flicker — a North American woodpecker C. auratus, which has a yellow undersurface to the wings and tail
  • your neck of the woods — Someone or something that is from your neck of the woods is from the same part of the country as you are.
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