15-letter words containing d, h, u, e
- out of the wood — clear of or safe from dangers or doubts
- outside the box — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
- pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
- photoconductive — of, relating to, or exhibiting photoconductivity.
- protonephridium — a tubular, excretory structure in certain invertebrates, as flatworms, rotifers, and some larvae, usually ending internally in flame cells and having an external pore
- pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
- pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
- pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
- pseudoarthrosis — a joint formed by fibrous tissue bridging the gap between the two fragments of bone of an old fracture that have not united
- pseudoephedrine — a dextrorotatory, isomeric compound, C 1 0 H 1 5 NO, used as a nasal decongestant.
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- pseudonephritis — a condition, thought to be benign, in which microscopic amounts of blood and protein are present in the urine, occurring commonly among athletes after strenuous exercise.
- punch the bundy — to start work
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- push up daisies — any of various composite plants the flowers of which have a yellow disk and white rays, as the English daisy and the oxeye daisy.
- put sb to death — If someone is put to death, they are executed.
- put the wind up — to frighten or alarm
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
- reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
- rez-de-chaussee — street level; ground floor.
- rough and ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- round character — a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
- round the twist — mad; eccentric
- round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
- round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
- roundheadedness — the state of having a round head
- rutherford atom — the atom postulated as analogous to the solar system, with electrons revolving around a small, central, positive nucleus that constitutes practically the entire mass of the atom
- sacred mushroom — any of various hallucinogenic mushrooms, esp species of Psilocybe and Amanita, that have been eaten in rituals in various parts of the world
- sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
- scheduled caste — (in India) the official name given to the lower castes that are now protected by the government and offered special concessions.
- second thoughts — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
- security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
- self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
- shalosh seudoth — the last of the three prescribed Sabbath meals, taken after Minhah and before the evening service.
- shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
- shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
- shoulder season — a travel season between peak and off-peak seasons, especially spring and fall, when fares tend to be relatively low.
- shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
- shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
- sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
- sodium chloride — salt1 (def 1).
- sodium ethylate — a white, hygroscopic powder, C 2 H 5 ONa, that is decomposed by water into sodium hydroxide and alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
- southeastwardly — toward the southeast
- southend-on-sea — a seaport in SE Essex, in SE England, on Thames estuary.
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- spotted sunfish — a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.