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16-letter words containing h, o, e, d

  • shoot-to-disable — of or relating to shooting by soldiers or police that is intended to disable rather than kill
  • short ski method — a way of learning to ski, using short skis
  • shorthand writer — a person trained to write in shorthand
  • shortsightedness — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • shoulder harness — the part of a seat belt that goes over the shoulder and diagonally across the chest.
  • shoulder holster — a holster that is worn on the shoulder
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • show cause order — a court order issued to a party in a lawsuit, directing that party to appear to give reasons why a certain action should not be put into effect by the court.
  • show-me attitude — a sceptical frame of mind
  • shut the door on — to refuse to think about
  • so help me (god) — I swear
  • sodium hydroxide — a white, deliquescent, water-soluble solid, NaOH, usually in the form of lumps, sticks, chips, or pellets, that upon solution in water generates heat: used chiefly in the manufacture of other chemicals, rayon, film, soap, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as a caustic.
  • sodium methylate — a white, free-flowing, flammable powder, CH 3 ONa, decomposed by water to sodium hydroxide and methyl alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • sodium phosphate — Also called monobasic sodium phosphate. a white, crystalline, slightly hygroscopic, water-soluble powder, NaH 2 PO 4 , used chiefly in dyeing and in electroplating.
  • soft in the head — stupid or foolish
  • sole stockholder — the only person who holds shares in a business
  • sonata da chiesa — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, that usually consists of four movements alternating between slow and fast.
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spear-head spoon — diamond-point spoon.
  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
  • st. john's-bread — carob (def 2).
  • stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • stannic chloride — a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl 4 , soluble in water and alcohol, that converts with water to a crystalline solid: used for electrically conductive and electroluminescent coatings and in ceramics.
  • streets ahead of — superior to, more advanced than, etc
  • sulphur trioxide — a white corrosive substance existing in three crystalline forms of which the stable (alpha-) form is usually obtained as silky needles. It is produced by the oxidation of sulphur dioxide, and is used in the sulphonation of organic compounds. Formula: SO3
  • summation method — a method for associating a sum with a divergent series.
  • surround theater — a theater, concert hall, or the like, in which seats are arranged around or on all four sides of a central stage.
  • synchronous idle — (character)   (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
  • take holy orders — to become ordained
  • take the lid off — to make startling or spectacular revelations about
  • take to the road — to start traveling; set out
  • tension headache — a headache caused by muscle tension resulting from stress or overwork
  • tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
  • thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
  • thatched cottage — a cottage that has a roof that is thatched with straw, reed etc
  • the body politic — the people of a nation or the nation itself considered as a political entity; the state
  • the devil to pay — 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.
  • the dispossessed — people who have had property or possessions taken away
  • the dojo toolkit — (library, programming)   A modular, open source JavaScript library. Dojo is designed for easy development of JavaScript- or AJAX based applications and websites. It is supported by the Dojo Foundation, which is sponsored by IBM, AOL, Sun and others. The name is from the Japanese term meaning "place of the way", used for a formal place of training.
  • the four hundred — the most exclusive or affluent social clique in a particular place
  • the here and now — the present time
  • the herring-pond — the Atlantic Ocean
  • the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • the mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
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