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15-letter words containing h, e, n, d, c

  • miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
  • monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
  • monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
  • monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
  • morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
  • multi-channeled — the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.
  • needle exchange — A needle exchange is a place where drug addicts are able to obtain new syringes in exchange for used ones.
  • nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
  • non-handicapped — Sometimes Offensive. physically or mentally disabled.
  • noncreditworthy — Not creditworthy.
  • nuclear warhead — a warhead containing a fission or fusion bomb.
  • ocean greyhound — a fast ship, esp a liner
  • old clothes man — a person who deals in second-hand clothes
  • on (the) record — recorded; publicly or officially declared or known
  • on the decrease — decreasing
  • orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
  • organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
  • osteochondritis — inflammation of bone and cartilage.
  • osteochondrosis — a disease of bone and cartilage growth centers in children that begins as a necrosis and is followed by regeneration or renewed calcification.
  • out in the cold — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
  • photoconductive — of, relating to, or exhibiting photoconductivity.
  • pick and choose — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • punch the bundy — to start work
  • radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
  • riding breeches — calf-length trousers of whipcord or other durable fabric, flaring at the sides of the thighs and fitting snugly at and below the knees, worn with riding boots for horseback riding, hunting, etc.
  • round character — a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
  • round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • schooner-rigged — rigged as a schooner, especially with gaff sails and staysails only.
  • second thoughts — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • seeding machine — a machine for sowing seeds
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • solenoid switch — A solenoid switch is an electrical switch that is often used where a high current circuit, such as a starter motor circuit, is brought into operation by a low current switch.
  • standing charge — fixed energy costs
  • 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.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • succedent house — any of the four houses that fall between the angular and cadent houses: the second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh houses, which correspond, respectively, to possessions and values, love and creation, shared possessions and resources, and friends and social concerns.
  • suicide machine — a device designed to permit a terminally ill person to commit suicide, as by the automatic injection of a lethal drug.
  • synecdochically — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • the common good — If you do something for the common good, you do it for the benefit or advantage of everyone.
  • 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 handicapped — those who are physically disabled or mentally retarded
  • the second form — the second year of secondary school
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • third ventricle — one of the four cavities of the brain, lying on the midline between the cerebral hemispheres
  • thunderstricken — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
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