16-letter words containing d, r, e, s, h
- garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- gender dysphoria — a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth.
- 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.
- gold star mother — an American woman whose son or daughter has died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
- golden horseshoe — the urban and agricultural area surrounding Toronto.
- good housekeeper — a person who is an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
- good-heartedness — the quality of being good-hearted
- graphic designer — person: commercial artist
- graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
- hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
- hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- handling charges — a fee paid to cover the packaging, transport, etc, of a commodity
- hard times token — any of a series of U.S. copper tokens, issued 1834–41, bearing a political inscription or advertising message and serving as currency during coin shortages.
- hard-packed snow — snow which becomes very firmly packed as it becomes refrozen due to cold weather conditions rather than melting
- hawaiian gardens — a town in SW California.
- hay-scented fern — a fern, Dennstaedtia punctilobula, of eastern North America, having brittle, yellow-green fronds.
- headmistressship — (rare) Alternative form of headmistress-ship.
- hearsay evidence — testimony based on what a witness has heard from another person rather than on direct personal knowledge or experience.
- heralds' college — a royal corporation in England, instituted in 1483, concerned chiefly with armorial bearings, genealogies, honors, and precedence.
- hernando de soto — Hernando [her-nan-doh;; Spanish er-nahn-daw] /hərˈnæn doʊ;; Spanish ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), or Fernando [fer-nan-doh;; Spanish fer-nahn-daw] /fərˈnæn doʊ;; Spanish fɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), c1500–42, Spanish soldier and explorer in America.
- himachal pradesh — a state in N India. 21,495 sq. mi. (55,673 sq. km). Capital: Shimla.
- hit one's stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
- hodmezovasarhely — a city in SE Hungary.
- homme d'affaires — a businessman.
- hookworm disease — any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
- horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
- horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
- horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
- horseradish tree — a tropical tree, Moringa pterygosperma, having fragrant white flowers and seeds yielding a commercially useful oil.
- household chores — tasks such as cleaning, washing, and ironing that have to be done regularly at home
- household troops — the infantry and cavalry regiments that carry out escort and guard duties for a head of state
- hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
- hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
- hydrostatic head — The hydrostatic head is the vertical height of a column of fluid.
- hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
- icositetrahedron — a solid figure having 24 faces.
- judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- jude the obscure — a novel (1895) by Thomas Hardy.
- kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
- kurdaitcha shoes — (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced
- leasehold reform — reform of the law relating to leasehold property
- lesser sanhedrin — Sanhedrin (def 2).
- lewis and harris — the northernmost island of the Hebrides, in NW Scotland. 825 sq. mi. (2135 sq. km).
- lightheartedness — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- lonely hearts ad — an advertisement placed by someone who is trying to find a lover or a friend
- lord howe island — an island in the S Pacific, E of Australia: a dependency of New South Wales. 5 sq. mi. (13 sq. km).
- mail-order house — a retail firm that conducts its business by receiving orders and shipping its merchandise through the mail and that supplies its customers with catalogs, circulars, etc.
- mandarin chinese — the official language of China since 1917; the form of Chinese spoken by about two thirds of the population and taught in schools throughout China
- manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
- maremma sheepdog — a large strongly-built sheepdog of a breed with a long, slightly wavy, white coat