15-letter words containing h, i, t, a, n, d
- sound-and-light — combining sound effects or music with unusual lighting displays: to promote a product with a spectacular sound-and-light presentation.
- spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
- spit and polish — great care in maintaining smart appearance and crisp efficiency: The commander was concerned more with spit and polish than with the company's morale.
- standing charge — fixed energy costs
- starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
- subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
- the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
- the first-named — something that is specified or named first
- the handicapped — those who are physically disabled or mentally retarded
- the job in hand — The job or problem in hand is the job or problem that you are dealing with at the moment.
- the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
- thiocyanic acid — an unstable acid, HSCN, known chiefly in the form of its salts.
- third amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing that the forced quartering of soldiers in private homes would be prohibited in peacetime and allowed only by prescribed law during wartime.
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- thought reading — mind reading.
- thousand island — of or relating to the Thousand Islands or their inhabitants
- three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
- thursday island — an island in Torres Strait between NE Australia and New Guinea; part of Queensland: pearl fishing. 1½ sq. mi. (4 sq. km).
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- tie one's hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- time and a half — a rate of pay for overtime work equal to one and one half times the regular hourly wage.
- trichomonacidal — relating to a trichomonacide
- tristram shandy — a novel (1759–67) by Laurence Sterne.
- trithionic acid — a thionic acid, H2S3O6
- unanaesthetized — not anaesthetized
- unauthenticated — to establish as genuine.
- uncharacterized — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
- unrehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
- weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- white zinfandel — a medium-sweet rosé wine made from zinfandel grapes.
- winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
- with one accord — If a number of people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time, because they agree about what should be done.
- withholding tax — that part of an employee's tax liability withheld by the employer from wages or salary and paid directly to the government.
- zenith distance — the angular distance from the zenith of a point on the celestial sphere to the sphere, measured along a great circle that is perpendicular to the horizon; the complement of the altitude.