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15-letter words containing h, e, a, d, n, t

  • hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
  • identical rhyme — rhyme created by the repetition of a word.
  • in at the death — the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. Compare brain death.
  • in the hands of — under the control of
  • in the old days — a long time ago
  • indian elephant — See under elephant.
  • inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
  • ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • kindheartedness — The quality of being kindhearted.
  • landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
  • late in the day — in the evening
  • lay of the land — the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the land.
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • lie of the land — the topography of the land
  • light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
  • lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
  • lymphadenectomy — the excision of one or more lymph nodes, usually as a procedure in the surgical removal or destruction of a cancer.
  • lymphadenopathy — chronically swollen lymph nodes.
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • maidenhair tree — ginkgo.
  • maidenhair-tree — ginkgo.
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • mental handicap — learning disability
  • methylphenidate — a central nervous system stimulant, C 1 4 H 1 9 NO 2 , used in the control of hyperkinetic syndromes and narcolepsy.
  • morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
  • multi-channeled — the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.
  • 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.
  • ninth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing that the rights enumerated in the Constitution would not be construed as denying or jeopardizing other rights of the people.
  • nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
  • norethandrolone — An anabolic steroid.
  • northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
  • northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
  • old clothes man — a person who deals in second-hand clothes
  • old-man-the-sea — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) an old man who clung to the shoulders of Sindbad the Sailor for many days and nights.
  • on the decrease — decreasing
  • on the one hand — You use on the one hand to introduce the first of two contrasting points, facts, or ways of looking at something. It is always followed later by on the other hand or 'on the other'.
  • one-night stand — a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
  • ornithodelphian — of or relating to mammals of the class Ornithodelphia
  • panhandle state — West Virginia (used as a nickname).
  • payment holiday — a break taken from paying ( a debt etc) back
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
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