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15-letter words containing h, o, d, i, n

  • scotch highland — any of a breed of small, hardy, usually dun-colored, shaggy-haired beef cattle with long, widespread horns, able to withstand the cold and sparse pasturage of its native western Scottish uplands.
  • self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shroud of turin — a linen cloth kept in the Cathedral of Turin, Italy, since the late 1500s that bears a faint life-size human image venerated by some as the imprint of the dead body of Jesus.
  • sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
  • snubfin dolphin — Australian dolphin with a small dorsal fin
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • spotted sunfish — a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.
  • 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.
  • synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
  • the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
  • the job in hand — The job or problem in hand is the job or problem that you are dealing with at the moment.
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • 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 dimension — the additional dimension by which a solid object is distinguished from a planar projection of itself or from any planar object.
  • 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.
  • thyroid hormone — A thyroid hormone is a hormone, especially thyroxine or triiodothyronine, produced by the thyroid gland.
  • 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.
  • trichomonacidal — relating to a trichomonacide
  • trithionic acid — a thionic acid, H2S3O6
  • trondheim fiord — an inlet of the North Sea, extending into N Norway. 80 miles (129 km) long.
  • trondheim fjord — an inlet of the Norwegian Sea in Norway, and Norway's third longest fjord, near which is the port of Trondheim
  • truth-condition — the circumstances under which a statement is true
  • uncomprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
  • unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
  • vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
  • w.h. richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
  • walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • window shopping — browsing store displays
  • 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.
  • working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
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