15-letter words containing h, o, t, d, r
- pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
- radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
- radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radioautography — autoradiography.
- radiophotograph — a photograph or other image transmitted by radio.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- ramrod straight — having a very straight figure
- raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
- reported speech — indirect quotation
- reverend mother — a title of respect or form of address for the Mother Superior of a convent
- rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- root and branch — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- root-and-branch — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- round character — a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
- 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.
- round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- rutherford atom — the atom postulated as analogous to the solar system, with electrons revolving around a small, central, positive nucleus that constitutes practically the entire mass of the atom
- scared to death — terrified
- school district — A school district is an area which includes all the schools that are situated within that area and are governed by a particular authority.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- start of header — (character) (SOH) mnemonic for ASCII 1.
- straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
- 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
- tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
- the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
- 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