15-letter words containing d, n, a, s
- guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
- guns and butter — a symbol for the economic policy of a government insofar as spending is allocated for either military or social purposes
- half-understood — partially understood
- halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
- hang one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- hang seng index — an index of share prices based on an average of 33 stocks quoted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
- hardheartedness — The state of being hardhearted.
- hare and hounds — an outdoor game in which certain players, the hares, start off in advance on a long run, scattering small pieces of paper, called the scent, with the other players, the hounds, following the trail so marked in an effort to catch the hares before they reach a designated point.
- harun al-rashid — a.d. 764?–809, caliph of Baghdad 786–809: one of the greatest Abbasids, he was made almost a legendary hero in the Arabian Nights.
- harun ar-rashid — a.d. 764?-809; caliph of Baghdad (786-809): given popular fame as a hero of The Arabian Nights
- hazard analysis — risk assessment
- hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
- hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
- hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
- henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
- hereditarianism — a person who believes that differences between individuals or groups, including moral and intellectual attributes, are predominantly determined by genetic factors (opposed to environmentalist).
- hereditarianist — a person who believes in the doctrine of hereditarianism
- hernando cortes — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
- high-handedness — condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary: He has a highhanded manner.
- hold one's hand — to stop or postpone a planned action or punishment
- holyhead island — former name of Holy Island (def 2).
- horned screamer — a screamer, Anhima cornuta, of tropical South America, having a long, slender hornlike process projecting from the forehead.
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
- hundred's place — hundred (def 8).
- hydrodynamicist — a specialist in hydrodynamics.
- hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
- hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
- hypochondriasis — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
- identical twins — one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.
- identifications — Plural form of identification.
- identity papers — law: legal documents
- idiosyncratical — Alternative form of idiosyncratic.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- immunodiagnosis — serodiagnosis.
- in a (bad) spot — in a bad situation; in trouble
- in the hands of — under the control of
- in the old days — a long time ago
- in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
- in-visible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
- inadmissibility — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
- inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
- inconsideration — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- independentista — (especially in Latin America) a person who supports or works toward political independence, especially one supporting radical changes in an existing government or from an existing system of government.
- indisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or corrected by discipline
- indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
- indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
- indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed