15-letter words containing h, a, r, d, c
- reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
- rez-de-chaussee — street level; ground floor.
- richard gabriel — (person) (Dick, RPG) Dr. Richard P. Gabriel. A noted SAIL LISP hacker and volleyball fanatic. Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Richard Gabriel is a leader in the Lisp and OOP community, with years of contributions to standardisation. He founded the successful company, Lucid Technologies, Inc.. In 1996 he was Distinguished Computer Scientist at ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. (later renamed ObjectShare, Inc.). See also gabriel, Qlambda, QLISP, saga.
- richard hamming — (person) Professor Richard Wesley Hamming (1915-02-11 - 1998-01-07). An American mathematician known for his work in information theory (notably error detection and correction), having invented the concepts of Hamming code, Hamming distance, and Hamming window. Richard Hamming received his B.S. from the University of Chicago in 1937, his M.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1939, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1942. In 1945 Hamming joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. In 1946, after World War II, Hamming joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories where he worked with both Shannon and John Tukey. He worked there until 1976 when he accepted a chair of computer science at the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California. Hamming's fundamental paper on error-detecting and error-correcting codes ("Hamming codes") appeared in 1950. His work on the IBM 650 leading to the development in 1956 of the L2 programming language. This never displaced the workhorse language L1 devised by Michael V Wolontis. By 1958 the 650 had been elbowed aside by the 704. Although best known for error-correcting codes, Hamming was primarily a numerical analyst, working on integrating differential equations and the Hamming spectral window used for smoothing data before Fourier analysis. He wrote textbooks, propounded aphorisms ("the purpose of computing is insight, not numbers"), and was a founder of the ACM and a proponent of open-shop computing ("better to solve the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way."). In 1968 he was made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and awarded the Turing Prize from the Association for Computing Machinery. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers awarded Hamming the Emanuel R Piore Award in 1979 and a medal in 1988.
- richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
- robe-de-chambre — a dressing gown.
- root and branch — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- root-and-branch — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- round character — a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
- sacred mushroom — any of various hallucinogenic mushrooms, esp species of Psilocybe and Amanita, that have been eaten in rituals in various parts of the world
- sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
- scared shitless — terrified
- scared to death — terrified
- security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
- shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
- shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
- socratic method — the use of questions, as employed by Socrates, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil, or to elicit admissions, as from an opponent, tending to establish a proposition.
- sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
- stack the cards — to prearrange the order of a pack of cards secretly so that the deal will benefit someone
- standing charge — fixed energy costs
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- student teacher — a student who is studying to be a teacher and who, as part of the training, observes classroom instruction or does closely supervised teaching in an elementary or secondary school.
- sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
- the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
- the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
- thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
- thyroid extract — the powdered preparation made from the thyroid gland of certain animals, used to treat hypothyroidism
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- tree-and-branch — denoting a cable television system in which all available programme channels are fed to each subscriber
- trichomonacidal — relating to a trichomonacide
- trithionic acid — a thionic acid, H2S3O6
- uncharacterized — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
- unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
- underresearched — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
- w.h. richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
- wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
- with good grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- with one accord — If a number of people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time, because they agree about what should be done.
- wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.