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

  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • second thought — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • self-published — published independently by the author: self-published books.
  • sesquisulphide — a sulphide containing three sulphur atoms to two of some other element
  • sharp-featured — having very clearly defined facial features
  • shit disturber — a person who enjoys causing controversy or upsetting people
  • shoulder blade — the scapula.
  • shoulder board — one of a pair of narrow, stiff, cloth patches bearing an insignia of rank and worn on the shoulders by a commissioned officer.
  • shoulder joint — the joint at the junction of the forelimb with the pectoral girdle
  • shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
  • shoulder strap — a strap worn over the shoulder, as to support a garment.
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • smooth-tongued — fluent or convincing in speech; glib.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • south pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • south tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 151 700 (2003 est). Area: 64 sq km (25 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • starch-reduced — (of food, esp bread) having the starch content reduced, as in proprietary slimming products
  • studio theatre — a small theatre within which the stage and seating can usually be rearranged
  • sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
  • sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • terraced house — A terraced house or a terrace house is one of a row of similar houses joined together by their side walls.
  • the beatitudes — the pronouncements in the Sermon on the Mount, which begin “Blessed are the poor in spirit”: Matt. 5:3-12
  • the deerhunter — a film (1978) about the Vietnam War, directed by Michael Cimino and starring Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken
  • the mujaheddin — (in Afghanistan and Iran) fundamentalist Muslim guerrillas; in Afghanistan in 1992 the mujaheddin overthrew the government but were unable to agree on a constitution due to factional conflict and in 1996 Taliban forces seized power
  • 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 unemployed — people who are out of work
  • 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.
  • thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
  • third quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the largest quartile; the 75th percentile; the value of the variable below which three quarters of the elements are located.
  • third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
  • thought-reader — someone who can read minds or psychically know others' thoughts
  • through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
  • thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
  • thunderousness — the quality or state of being thunderous
  • to be slouched — to sit, lie or lean in an ungainly way, with one's limbs spread out
  • to gather dust — If you say that something is gathering dust, you mean that it has been left somewhere and nobody is using it or doing anything with it.
  • troubleshooted — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • un-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • un-synthesized — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • unanesthetised — not anaesthetised
  • uncomprehended — not comprehended or understood
  • undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • under the rose — in secret; privately; sub rosa
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