15-letter words containing h, a, r, d, e, t
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
- morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
- neanderthal man — a member of an extinct subspecies of powerful, physically robust humans, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, that inhabited Europe and western and central Asia c100,000–40,000 b.c.
- nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- norethandrolone — An anabolic steroid.
- northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
- northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
- old father time — time personified
- on the decrease — decreasing
- ornithodelphian — of or relating to mammals of the class Ornithodelphia
- orthopaedic bed — a specially firm bed designed to help correct or ameliorate the discomfort of disorders of the spine and joints
- orthopaedically — in an orthopaedic manner
- oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
- paracetaldehyde — paraldehyde.
- passport holder — a person who has a passport
- photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
- pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.
- pseudoarthrosis — a joint formed by fibrous tissue bridging the gap between the two fragments of bone of an old fracture that have not united
- radiant heating — the means of heating objects or persons by radiation in which the intervening air is not heated.
- radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
- radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- raise the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
- read-write head — an electromagnetic device, as in a disk or tape drive, that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic disk or tape.
- read/write head — an electromagnetic device, as in a disk or tape drive, that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic disk or tape.
- reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
- red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
- rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
- round character — a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- rutherford atom — the atom postulated as analogous to the solar system, with electrons revolving around a small, central, positive nucleus that constitutes practically the entire mass of the atom
- 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.
- self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
- shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
- short and sweet — having little length; not long.
- short-eared owl — a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
- shorthand notes — notes written in shorthand
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- 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.
- software method — Software Methodology
- soldier's heart — cardiac neurosis.