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

  • diplomatic pouch — a sealed mailbag containing diplomatic correspondence that is sent free of inspection between a foreign office and its diplomatic or consular post abroad or from one such post to another.
  • direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
  • director's chair — a lightweight folding armchair with transversely crossed legs and having a canvas seat and back panel, as traditionally used by motion-picture directors.
  • discovery method — a largely unstructured, situational method or philosophy of teaching whereby students are permitted to find solutions to problems on their own or at their own pace, often jointly in group activities, either independent of or under the guidance of a teacher.
  • disestablishment — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
  • disfranchisement — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
  • distinguishments — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
  • do business with — trade or deal with
  • do sth in person — If you do something in person, you do it yourself rather than letting someone else do it for you.
  • dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
  • double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • down to the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
  • dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
  • ducktail-haircut — DA.
  • dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
  • dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
  • dyed-in-the-wool — through and through; complete: a dyed-in-the-wool reformer.
  • earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
  • ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • faintheartedness — The quality or state of being fainthearted.
  • fantail goldfish — an artificially bred, hardy variety of goldfish, usually oval-shaped and deep orange or calico, with a deeply cleft, four-lobed tail held in line with the body.
  • fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
  • fast of gedaliah — Tzom Gedaliah.
  • fat-tailed sheep — one of a class of sheep with much fat along the sides of the tail bones, raised for their meat and widely distributed in southeast Europe, northern Africa, and Asia.
  • federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
  • find favour with — to be approved of by someone
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • fishing industry — the industry of catching fish
  • flathead catfish — a yellow and brown catfish, Pylodictus olivaris, common in the central U.S., having a flattened head and a projecting lower jaw.
  • flight attendant — an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
  • flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
  • floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
  • fool around with — have casual sex
  • foot in the door — If you say that something helps someone to get their foot in the door or their toe in the door, you mean that it gives them an opportunity to start doing something new, usually in an area that is difficult to succeed in.
  • for the duration — If you say that something will happen for the duration, you mean that it will happen for as long as a particular situation continues.
  • forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
  • forked lightning — Forked lightning is lightning that divides into two or more parts near the ground.
  • forward-thinking — planning or tending to plan for the future; forward-looking.
  • fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
  • french directory — the body of five directors in power in France from 1795 until their overthrow by Napoleon in 1799
  • ft share indexes — any of a number of share indexes published by the Financial Times to reflect various aspects of stock exchange prices
  • garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • gilding the lily — If you say that someone is gilding the lily, you mean that they are spoiling something that is already beautiful or perfect by trying to improve it or by praising it too highly.
  • give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
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