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14-letter words containing h, o, r, e, n, d

  • schoolchildren — a child attending school.
  • second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • shortened form — an abbreviated form of a multisyllable word; clipped form.
  • shoulder joint — the joint at the junction of the forelimb with the pectoral girdle
  • sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
  • spider phaeton — (formerly) a light horse-drawn carriage with a high body and large slender wheels
  • the depression — the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
  • the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • theory of mind — Psychology, Philosophy. the ability to interpret one’s own and other people’s mental and emotional states, understanding that each person has unique motives, perspectives, etc.: People with autism seem to lack theory of mind. Abbreviation: ToM, TOM.
  • 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.
  • thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
  • three-cornered — having three corners: a three-cornered hat.
  • thunderousness — the quality or state of being thunderous
  • trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
  • triiodomethane — iodoform.
  • trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
  • 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.
  • uncomprehended — not comprehended or understood
  • under the rose — in secret; privately; sub rosa
  • under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
  • underhand chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop where the axeman stands on the log, which is placed on the ground
  • undernourished — not nourished with sufficient or proper food to maintain or promote health or normal growth.
  • underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
  • unsynchronized — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • vinyl chloride — a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, C 2 H 3 Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.
  • washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
  • weather window — a limited interval when weather conditions can be expected to be suitable for a particular project, such as laying offshore pipelines, reaching a high mountain summit, launching a satellite, etc
  • well-nourished — having been provided with plenty of the material necessary for life and growth
  • window-shopper — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
  • wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
  • wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
  • xanthosiderite — a mineral, hydrous iron oxide, Fe 2 O 3 ⋅2H 2 O.
  • yeddo hawthorn — a Japanese shrub, Raphiolepis umbellata, of the rose family, having leathery leaves and dense, hairy clusters of fragrant white flowers.
  • yorkshire bond — flying bond.
  • youth offender — a young delinquent, especially a first offender, usually from 14 to 21 years old, whom the court tries to correct and guide rather than to punish as a criminal.
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