18-letter words containing d, i, s, n, t, h
- shipping documents — documents relating to the sending of a shipment of goods, for example containing details of contents, weight, value etc.
- sign of the zodiac — one of the twelve constellations along the path of the ecliptic.
- sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
- sit on one's hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- sodium thiocyanate — a white powder or colorless, deliquescent crystals, NaSCN, used chiefly in organic synthesis and in medicine in the treatment of hypertension.
- solid-fuel heating — heating that uses solid fuel, such as coal or coke
- song without words — a song which only consists of a tune or melody and does not have any lyrics
- sonic depth finder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
- southampton island — an island in N Canada, in the Northwest Territories at the entrance to Hudson Bay. 19,100 sq. mi. (49,470 sq. km).
- southern rhodesian — a former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe (def 1).
- strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
- sutton-in-ashfield — a market town in N central England, in W Nottinghamshire. Pop: 41 951 (2001)
- swedish gymnastics — a system of passive and active exercising of muscles and joints
- synthetic division — a simplified procedure for dividing a polynomial by a linear polynomial.
- take sth in stride — If you take a problem or difficulty in stride, you deal with it calmly and easily.
- tan someone's hide — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- the damage is done — If you say 'the damage is done', you mean that it is too late now to prevent the harmful effects of something that has already happened.
- the dismal science — a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
- the encyclopedists — the writers of the French Encyclopedia (1751-72) edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, which contained the advanced ideas of the period
- the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
- the movie industry — the industry that makes entertainment films or movies
- thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
- thirty-second note — a note having 1/32 of the time value of a whole note; demi-semiquaver.
- thirty-second rest — a rest equal in value to a thirty-second note.
- thomas alva edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
- threatened species — a species likely, in the near future, to become an endangered species within all or much of its range.
- thrills and spills — If you refer to thrills and spills, you are referring to an experience which is exciting and full of surprises.
- to come unstitched — to go wrong or awry
- to get wind of sth — If you get wind of something, you hear about it, especially when someone else did not want you to know about it.
- to pick and choose — If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
- transit theodolite — a theodolite having a telescope that can be transited.
- under the aegis of — guided or protected by
- urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
- wesleyan methodist — a member of any of the churches founded on the evangelical principles of John Wesley.
- white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.