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

  • 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.
  • roundheadedness — the state of having a round head
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • second thoughts — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shoulder season — a travel season between peak and off-peak seasons, especially spring and fall, when fares tend to be relatively low.
  • shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
  • 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.
  • snubfin dolphin — Australian dolphin with a small dorsal fin
  • sound-and-light — combining sound effects or music with unusual lighting displays: to promote a product with a spectacular sound-and-light presentation.
  • southend-on-sea — a seaport in SE Essex, in SE England, on Thames estuary.
  • spotted sunfish — a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.
  • succedent house — any of the four houses that fall between the angular and cadent houses: the second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh houses, which correspond, respectively, to possessions and values, love and creation, shared possessions and resources, and friends and social concerns.
  • 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.
  • 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 daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the underground — an electric passenger railway operated in underground tunnels
  • the war-wounded — those people who have been injured or wounded by war
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • thousand island — of or relating to the Thousand Islands or their inhabitants
  • toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
  • truth-condition — the circumstances under which a statement is true
  • unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
  • uncomprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • under one's hat — a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
  • unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
  • unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
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