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18-letter words containing h, e, d, r, a

  • propaganda machine — the group of people, publications, etc, such as of a government, country etc, responsible for the organized dissemination of information, allegations, etc, to assist or damage the cause of a government, movement, etc
  • pseudo-anarchistic — a person who advocates or believes in anarchy or anarchism.
  • put heads together — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • pyramus and thisbe — (in Greek legend) two lovers of Babylon: Pyramus, wrongly supposing Thisbe to be dead, killed himself and she, encountering him in his death throes, did the same
  • pyromucic aldehyde — furfural.
  • random walk theory — the theory that the future movement of share prices does not reflect past movements and therefore will not follow a discernible pattern
  • ready when you are — If you say to someone 'Ready when you are', you are telling them that you are now ready to do something and that as soon as they are ready, you will do it.
  • rear its ugly head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • registered charity — official aid organization
  • regular hexahedron — a solid cube with six square faces
  • 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
  • rheims-douay bible — Douay Bible.
  • rhode island white — one of a dual-purpose American breed of chickens having white feathers and a rose comb.
  • rhodes scholarship — one of a number of scholarships at Oxford University, established by the will of Cecil Rhodes, for selected students (Rhodes scholars) from the British Commonwealth and the United States.
  • richard p. feynman — (person, computing, architecture)   /fayn'mn/ 1918-1988. A US physicist, computer scientist and author who graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton. Feynmane was a key figure in helping Oppenheimer and team develop atomic bomb. In 1950 he became a professor at Caltech and in 1965 became Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics for QED (quantum electrodynamics). He was a primary figure in "solving" the Challenger disaster O-ring problem. He "rediscovered" the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Tuva. The 2001 film "Infinity" about Feynman's early life featured Matthew Broderick and Patricia Arquette. In 2001, "QED", a play about Feynman's life featuring Alan Alda opened.
  • richard p. gabriel — Richard Gabriel
  • ride a hobby horse — an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation: Her hobbies include stamp-collecting and woodcarving.
  • runge-kutta method — a numerical method, involving successive approximations, used to solve differential equations.
  • saint john's bread — carob (def 2).
  • schofield barracks — a town on central Oahu, in central Hawaii.
  • scholarship holder — a person who, because of academic merit, receives financial aid for their studies
  • 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.
  • september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
  • sharp-shinned hawk — a North American hawk, Accipiter striatus, having extremely slender legs, a bluish-gray back, and a white, rusty-barred breast.
  • shepherd satellite — a small moon orbiting near a planetary ring, whose gravitational pull helps confine the ring and the ring's extent.
  • short-tailed shrew — a grayish-black shrew, Blarina brevicauda, common in eastern North America, that has a tail less than half the length of the body.
  • shorthand notebook — a notebook used by a shorthand writer
  • sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
  • sound and the fury — a novel (1929) by William Faulkner.
  • sound spectrograph — an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.
  • southern rhodesian — a former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe (def 1).
  • sow dragon's teeth — to take some action that is intended to prevent strife or trouble but that actually brings it about
  • spotted flycatcher — a European woodland songbird, Muscicapa striata, with a greyish-brown streaked plumage: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers)
  • standard schnauzer — schnauzer.
  • stomach sweetbread — sweetbread (def 1).
  • 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
  • study hall teacher — a teacher who supervises or helps students during a period of time or lesson used for studying
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • sulfuric anhydride — sulfur trioxide.
  • take a deep breath — If you say that you took a deep breath before doing something dangerous or frightening, you mean that you tried to make yourself feel strong and confident.
  • take sth in stride — If you take a problem or difficulty in stride, you deal with it calmly and easily.
  • temporary hardness — hardness of water due to the presence of magnesium and calcium hydrogencarbonates, which can be precipitated as carbonates by boiling
  • the american dream — the notion that the American social, economic, and political system makes success possible for every individual
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the dark continent — a term for Africa when it was relatively unexplored
  • the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
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