14-letter words containing h, e, r, d, t, s
- southeastwards — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
- southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
- southwestwards — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
- speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
- spider phaeton — (formerly) a light horse-drawn carriage with a high body and large slender wheels
- spotted orchid — any of various common Eurasian orchids, esp the heath and common spotted orchids (Dactylorhiza maculata and D. fuchsii). The flowers are variable but usually have dark blotches
- starch-reduced — (of food, esp bread) having the starch content reduced, as in proprietary slimming products
- steely-hearted — hard-hearted
- straight-ahead — not deviating from what is usual or expected; conventional or traditional; standard: a straight-ahead novel with a happy ending.
- straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
- striped gopher — a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
- studio theatre — a small theatre within which the stage and seating can usually be rearranged
- swedish turnip — rutabaga.
- teacher's aide — A teacher's aide is a person who helps a teacher in a school classroom but who is not a qualified teacher.
- terraced house — A terraced house or a terrace house is one of a row of similar houses joined together by their side walls.
- the cordeliers — a political club founded in 1790 and meeting at an old Cordelier convent in Paris
- the depression — the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
- the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
- the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
- the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
- the lesser dog — the constellation Canis Minor
- the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
- the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
- the red guards — a radical political movement of civilian youths in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution
- the wilderness — the barren regions to the south and east of Palestine, esp those in which the Israelites wandered before entering the Promised Land and in which Christ fasted for 40 days and nights
- the-federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
- threaded glass — glass decorated with a pattern produced by variegated glass filaments.
- thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
- thunderousness — the quality or state of being thunderous
- to gather dust — If you say that something is gathering dust, you mean that it has been left somewhere and nobody is using it or doing anything with it.
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- troubleshooted — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- try one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- under the rose — in secret; privately; sub rosa
- under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
- unstrengthened — not strengthened or reinforced; not given additional strength
- volksdeutscher — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
- wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
- xanthosiderite — a mineral, hydrous iron oxide, Fe 2 O 3 ⋅2H 2 O.
- yield strength — the stress necessary to produce a given inelastic strain in a material.
- zephyr worsted — lightweight worsted yarn.