15-letter words containing d, r, e, s, h, o
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- goodheartedness — The quality of being goodhearted.
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- half-understood — partially understood
- hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
- 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.
- hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
- have words with — to argue angrily with
- hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
- head over heels — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- heads will roll — If you say that heads will roll as a result of something bad that has happened, you mean that people will be punished for it, especially by losing their jobs.
- hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
- heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
- hermaphroditism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- hernando cortes — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
- heroin overdose — an excessive amount of the drug heroin, sufficient to cause illness or death
- heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- heteroscedastic — (of several distributions) having different variances
- high priesthood — the condition or office of a high priest.
- horned screamer — a screamer, Anhima cornuta, of tropical South America, having a long, slender hornlike process projecting from the forehead.
- horner's method — a technique, involving successive substitutions, for approximating the real roots of an equation with real coefficients.
- horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
- hundred flowers — the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperthyroidism — overactivity of the thyroid gland.
- hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- joseph jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- marsh andromeda — a low-growing pink-flowered ericaceous evergreen shrub, Andromeda polifolia, that grows in peaty bogs of northern regions
- meadow mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
- miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
- monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
- nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- no holds barred — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- non-shareholder — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
- northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- on the decrease — decreasing