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16-letter words containing r, h, o, d, u

  • roundabout chair — corner chair.
  • rule of the road — any of the regulations concerning the safe handling of vessels under way with respect to one another, imposed by a government on ships in its own waters or upon its own ships on the high seas.
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • russian orthodox — of or relating to the Russian Orthodox Church
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shared resources — the sharing of peripherals among several terminals
  • shoulder harness — the part of a seat belt that goes over the shoulder and diagonally across the chest.
  • shoulder holster — a holster that is worn on the shoulder
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • show cause order — a court order issued to a party in a lawsuit, directing that party to appear to give reasons why a certain action should not be put into effect by the court.
  • shut the door on — to refuse to think about
  • sodium hydroxide — a white, deliquescent, water-soluble solid, NaOH, usually in the form of lumps, sticks, chips, or pellets, that upon solution in water generates heat: used chiefly in the manufacture of other chemicals, rayon, film, soap, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as a caustic.
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • sulphur trioxide — a white corrosive substance existing in three crystalline forms of which the stable (alpha-) form is usually obtained as silky needles. It is produced by the oxidation of sulphur dioxide, and is used in the sulphonation of organic compounds. Formula: SO3
  • surround theater — a theater, concert hall, or the like, in which seats are arranged around or on all four sides of a central stage.
  • synchronous dram — Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
  • synchronous idle — (character)   (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
  • taurocholic acid — an acid, C 26 H 45 NO 7 S, occurring as a sodium salt in the bile of carnivorous animals, which on hydrolysis yields taurine and cholic acid.
  • the four hundred — the most exclusive or affluent social clique in a particular place
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the scots guards — a regiment of Guards Division of the British Army which dates back to 1642
  • thought disorder — disorganized speech, as flight of ideas or loosening of associations, thought to reflect disorganized thinking and occurring as a symptom of some types of mental illness, as manic disorder or schizophrenia.
  • through-composed — having different music for each verse: a through-composed song. Compare strophic (def 2).
  • to hold your own — If you hold your own, you are able to resist someone who is attacking or opposing you.
  • to try your hand — If you try your hand at an activity, you attempt to do it, usually for the first time.
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • under the plough — If an area of land is under the plough, it is used for growing crops. If land is brought or put under the plough, it is ploughed for the first time and is then used for growing crops.
  • undernourishment — If someone is suffering from undernourishment, they have poor health because they are not eating enough food or are eating the wrong kind of food.
  • uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
  • unmarried mother — a woman who has a baby while she is not married
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • well-upholstered — (of a person) fat
  • wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around
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