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13-letter words containing o, l, d, h

  • riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
  • river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
  • roman holiday — a public spectacle or controversy marked by barbarism, vindictiveness, or scandal.
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • school dinner — meal served at educational institution
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • school record — the information that is kept about a child at school, including biographical information and exam results
  • scissors hold — a wrestling hold in which one contestant clasps the other with the legs
  • scottish fold — a breed of medium-sized short-haired cat with folded ears
  • shear modulus — The shear modulus of a material is how stiff or rigid it is. It is equal to the shear stress divided by the shear strain.
  • shed light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • shell-shocked — battle fatigue.
  • shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
  • short-sleeved — having short sleeves
  • shoulder arms — to bring the rifle vertically close to the right side with the muzzle uppermost and held at the trigger guard
  • shoulder knot — a knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder, as by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries, by servants in livery, or by women or children.
  • shoulder loop — a flap on each shoulder of a service uniform on which metallic insignia of rank are worn by commissioned and warrant officers in the Army, Air Force, and Marines.
  • shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
  • show and tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • show-and-tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
  • sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
  • slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
  • small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
  • south holland — a province in the SW Netherlands. 1086 sq. mi. (2810 sq. km). Capital: The Hague.
  • south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
  • synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
  • synecdochical — 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.
  • table--d-hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • tetartohedral — (of a crystal) having one fourth the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
  • the good life — If you say that someone is living the good life, you mean that they are living in comfort and luxury with few problems or worries.
  • the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
  • the last word — final retort
  • the new world — the Americas; the western hemisphere
  • thiabendazole — a drug used as an antifungal treatment and as an anthelmintic
  • third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
  • three old cat — three-a-cat.
  • threefoldness — the state or condition of being threefold
  • thyroid gland — a two-lobed endocrine gland, located at the base of the neck that secretes two hormones that regulate the rates of metabolism, growth, and development.
  • ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
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