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15-letter words containing h, e, r, d, t, s

  • raise the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • reported speech — indirect quotation
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • round the twist — mad; eccentric
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • scared shitless — terrified
  • scared to death — terrified
  • security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
  • 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.
  • 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-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
  • 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.
  • software method — Software Methodology
  • soldier's heart — cardiac neurosis.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
  • spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
  • spread the word — make others aware
  • stack the cards — to prearrange the order of a pack of cards secretly so that the deal will benefit someone
  • 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
  • standing charge — fixed energy costs
  • start of header — (character)   (SOH) mnemonic for ASCII 1.
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
  • 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.
  • studhorse poker — stud poker.
  • 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
  • sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
  • 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 desert rats — nickname for the British 7th Armoured Division during WWII
  • the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • the netherlands — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
  • the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
  • the second form — the second year of secondary school
  • the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
  • the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
  • third dimension — the additional dimension by which a solid object is distinguished from a planar projection of itself or from any planar object.
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