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15-letter words containing r, h, o, d

  • software method — Software Methodology
  • soldier's heart — cardiac neurosis.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • speech disorder — an inability to produce normal speech
  • 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.
  • sully-prudhomme — René François Armand [ruh-ney frahn-swa ar-mahn] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa arˈmɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.
  • sulphur dioxide — a colourless soluble pungent gas produced by burning sulphur. It is both an oxidizing and a reducing agent and is used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, the preservation of a wide range of foodstuffs (E220), bleaching, and disinfecting. Formula: SO2
  • sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
  • summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
  • 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
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the donkey work — difficult, boring, or routine work
  • the greater dog — the constellation Canis Major
  • the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
  • the motor trade — the business of selling and buying cars and other road vehicles
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the second form — the second year of secondary school
  • the underground — an electric passenger railway operated in underground tunnels
  • the war-wounded — those people who have been injured or wounded by war
  • the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
  • the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • third dimension — the additional dimension by which a solid object is distinguished from a planar projection of itself or from any planar object.
  • thorium dioxide — a white, heavy, water-insoluble powder, ThO 2 , used chiefly in incandescent mantles, as the Welsbach gas mantle.
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • throw overboard — to reject or abandon
  • thyroid extract — the powdered preparation made from the thyroid gland of certain animals, used to treat hypothyroidism
  • thyroid hormone — A thyroid hormone is a hormone, especially thyroxine or triiodothyronine, produced by the thyroid gland.
  • to grab hold of — Hold is used in expressions such as grab hold of, catch hold of, and get hold of, to indicate that you close your hand tightly around something, for example to stop something moving or falling.
  • to hit the road — If you hit the road, you set out on a journey.
  • trichomonacidal — relating to a trichomonacide
  • trithionic acid — a thionic acid, H2S3O6
  • trondheim fiord — an inlet of the North Sea, extending into N Norway. 80 miles (129 km) long.
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