15-letter words containing r, h, o, d, e, i
- heroin overdose — an excessive amount of the drug heroin, sufficient to cause illness or death
- heteroscedastic — (of several distributions) having different variances
- high priesthood — the condition or office of a high priest.
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
- hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
- hydrogen iodide — a colorless gas, HI, having a suffocating odor: the anhydride of hydriodic acid.
- hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
- hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
- hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperlipoidemia — An abnormally high level of lipoids in the blood.
- hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
- hyperthyroidism — overactivity of the thyroid gland.
- hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
- hypodorian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from A to A, with the final on D.
- ichthyodorulite — a spiny plate located on the tail and back of some fish or similar vertebrates
- ichthyodorylite — a fossilised fish-spine
- identity theory — a form of materialism which holds mental states to be identical with certain states of the brain and so to have no separate existence, but regards this identity as contingent so that mentalistic and physicalistic language are not held to be synonymous
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- leonid brezhnev — Leonid Ilyich [ley-uh-nid il-yich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet ee-lyeech] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–82, Russian political leader: first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 1964–66; general secretary 1966–82; president of the Soviet Union 1960–64, 1977–82.
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- lord high fixer — [Primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Lord High Executioner"] The person in an organisation who knows the most about some aspect of a system. See wizard.
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
- methyl chloride — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Cl, used chiefly as a refrigerant, as a local anesthetic, and as a methylating agent in organic synthesis.
- miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
- monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
- morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
- nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- noncreditworthy — Not creditworthy.
- old father time — time personified
- old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
- ordinary shares — British. a share of common stock.
- organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
- ornithodelphian — of or relating to mammals of the class Ornithodelphia
- orphaned i-node — (operating system) /or'f*nd i:'nohd/ [Unix] 1. A file that retains storage but no longer appears in the directories of a file system.
- ortho-toluidine — Chemistry. a light-yellow, very slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 9 N, the ortho isomer of toluidine: used in the manufacture of dyes, saccharin, and other organic compounds, and in textile printing processes.
- orthopaedic bed — a specially firm bed designed to help correct or ameliorate the discomfort of disorders of the spine and joints