15-letter words containing d, i, s, h, e
- inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
- ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
- jewish calendar — the lunisolar calendar used by the Jews, in which time is reckoned from 3761 bc: regarded as the year of the Creation. The months, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishri, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, and Adar, have either 29 or 30 days. Originally a new month was declared when the new moon was sighted in Jerusalem, but when this became impossible, a complex formula was devised to keep Rosh Chodesh near to the new moon. In addition, to keep the harvest festivals in the right seasons, there is a Metonic cycle of 14 years, in five of which an additional month is added after Shevat. The year according to biblical reckoning begins with Nisan, and the civil year begins with Tishri; the years are numbered from Tishri
- johne's disease — a chronic diarrheal disease of cattle and sheep caused by infection with Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, an organism related to the tubercle bacillus.
- joint-household — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
- kindheartedness — The quality of being kindhearted.
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
- light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
- lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
- locomotive shed — a shed in which locomotives are kept
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
- lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
- madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
- misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
- miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
- monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
- multihomed host — A host which has more than one connection to a network. The host may send and receive data over any of the links but will not route traffic for other nodes.
- nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- night blindness — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
- nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- old-established — established for a long time
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- one-night stand — a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
- ordinary shares — British. a share of common stock.
- organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
- osteochondritis — inflammation of bone and cartilage.
- osteochondrosis — a disease of bone and cartilage growth centers in children that begins as a necrosis and is followed by regeneration or renewed calcification.
- outside the box — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
- oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
- packet-switched — packet switching
- paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
- pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
- phoenix islands — a group of eight coral islands in the central Pacific: administratively part of Kiribati. Area: 28 sq km (11 sq miles). The islands and surrounding waters form the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, the world's largest marine protected area. Area: 410 500 sq km (158 500 sq miles)
- photodissociate — to split or break up molecules as a result of the absorption of photons
- pick and choose — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.
- 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