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15-letter words containing h, e, d, r, o

  • 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
  • sherwood forest — an ancient royal forest in central England, chiefly in Nottinghamshire: the traditional haunt of Robin Hood.
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • 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.
  • shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
  • shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
  • shoulder season — a travel season between peak and off-peak seasons, especially spring and fall, when fares tend to be relatively low.
  • shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
  • shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
  • silver chloride — a white, granular, water-insoluble powder, AgCl, that darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and in the making of antiseptic silver preparations.
  • 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.
  • sodium chloride — salt1 (def 1).
  • software method — Software Methodology
  • soldier's heart — cardiac neurosis.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • speech disorder — an inability to produce normal speech
  • sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
  • spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
  • spread the word — make others aware
  • staggered hours — a system of working in which the employees of an organization do not all arrive and leave at the same time, but have large periods of overlap
  • start of header — (character)   (SOH) mnemonic for ASCII 1.
  • studhorse poker — stud poker.
  • sully-prudhomme — René François Armand [ruh-ney frahn-swa ar-mahn] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa arˈmɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.
  • sulphur dioxide — a colourless soluble pungent gas produced by burning sulphur. It is both an oxidizing and a reducing agent and is used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, the preservation of a wide range of foodstuffs (E220), bleaching, and disinfecting. Formula: SO2
  • summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
  • superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
  • tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
  • 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
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the donkey work — difficult, boring, or routine work
  • the greater dog — the constellation Canis Major
  • the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
  • the motor trade — the business of selling and buying cars and other road vehicles
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the second form — the second year of secondary school
  • the underground — an electric passenger railway operated in underground tunnels
  • the war-wounded — those people who have been injured or wounded by war
  • the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
  • the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
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