18-letter words containing h, a, n, d, s, c
- matthias schleiden — Matthias Jakob [mah-tee-ahs yah-kawp] /mɑˈti ɑs ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1804–81, German botanist.
- neuropsychodynamic — Of or pertaining to neuropsychodynamics.
- northeast corridor — the long, narrow strip of land between Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C., containing many adjacent urban areas.
- orthotungstic acid — an oxyacid acid of tungsten. Formula: H2WO4
- packet switch node — (PSN) A dedicated computer whose purpose is to accept, route and forward packets in a packet-switched network.
- palm beach gardens — a city in SE Florida, near North Palm Beach.
- pennsylvania dutch — the descendants of 17th- and 18th-century settlers in Pennsylvania from southwest Germany and Switzerland.
- physical education — systematic instruction in sports, exercises, and hygiene given as part of a school or college program.
- pitch-and-run shot — chip shot.
- price on sb's head — If there is a price on someone 's head, an amount of money has been offered for the capture or killing of that person.
- pseudo-anarchistic — a person who advocates or believes in anarchy or anarchism.
- puvis de chavannes — Puvis de [py-vee duh] /püˈvi də/ (Show IPA), Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre.
- repayment schedule — a document detailing the specific terms of a borrower's loan, such as monthly payment, interest rate, due dates etc
- residential school — (in Canada) a boarding school maintained by the Canadian government for Indian and Inuit children from sparsely populated settlements
- school for scandal — a comedy of manners (1777) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- scratch one's head — If you say that someone is scratching their head, you mean that they are thinking hard and trying to solve a problem or puzzle.
- search-and-destroy — designed to find and destroy by bombing etc
- second-hand dealer — a person who deals in second-hand things, such as cars, or furniture
- secondary syphilis — the second stage of syphilis, characterized by eruptions of the skin and mucous membrane.
- sign of the zodiac — one of the twelve constellations along the path of the ecliptic.
- sodium thiocyanate — a white powder or colorless, deliquescent crystals, NaSCN, used chiefly in organic synthesis and in medicine in the treatment of hypertension.
- sound spectrograph — an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.
- standard schnauzer — schnauzer.
- 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
- submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
- sulfuric anhydride — sulfur trioxide.
- swedish gymnastics — a system of passive and active exercising of muscles and joints
- the black and tans — a specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Féin
- the dismal science — a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
- thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
- threatened species — a species likely, in the near future, to become an endangered species within all or much of its range.
- to pick and choose — If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
- townsend avalanche — avalanche (def 3).
- welland ship canal — a ship canal in S Canada, in Ontario, connecting Lakes Erie and Ontario: 8 locks. 25 miles (40 km) long.
- world championship — an international competition in a particular sport or activity for people all around the world