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16-letter words containing d, i, a, t, h

  • two-tailed pasha — a distinctive vanessid butterfly of S Europe, Charaxes jasius, having mottled brown wings with a yellow-orange margin and frilled hind edges
  • typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
  • underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
  • unmarried mother — a woman who has a baby while she is not married
  • urim and thummim — two objects probably used as oracles and carried in the breastplate of the high priest (Exodus 28:30)
  • vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
  • ward christensen — (person)   The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmed mainframes for IBM. Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on 1978-02-16 in Chicago. It ran on an S-100 computer with 64k RAM and two single-sided 8" 250kB diskettes.
  • washington, d. c — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
  • washington, d.c. — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
  • weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
  • weighted average — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • well-established — permanently founded; settled; firmly set: a well-established business; a well-established habit.
  • western sandwich — a sandwich with a western omelet for a filling.
  • white propaganda — propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
  • white sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
  • white wood aster — a composite plant, Aster divaricatus, of North America, having flat-topped clusters of white ray flowers and growing in dry woods.
  • white-haired boy — a favourite; darling
  • wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
  • windchill factor — an estimated measurement of the cooling effect of air and wind, esp. when applied to the loss of body heat from exposed skin; chill factor
  • with a free hand — with generosity; lavishly
  • with a high hand — with arrogance; in an arbitrary or dictatorial manner
  • with clean hands — innocently
  • withdrawing room — a room to withdraw or retire to; drawing room.
  • woody nightshade — bittersweet (def 3).
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