18-letter words containing s, d, e, a, t, h
- disodium phosphate — sodium phosphate (def 2).
- dispatch documents — documents sent with a parcel, etc, detailing information such as contents, delivery address, etc
- electric discharge — electricity emitted
- established church — a Church that is officially recognized as a national institution, esp the Church of England
- euclid's algorithm — (algorithm) (Or "Euclidean Algorithm") An algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two numbers. It relies on the identity gcd(a, b) = gcd(a-b, b) To find the GCD of two numbers by this algorithm, repeatedly replace the larger by subtracting the smaller from it until the two numbers are equal. E.g. 132, 168 -> 132, 36 -> 96, 36 -> 60, 36 -> 24, 36 -> 24, 12 -> 12, 12 so the GCD of 132 and 168 is 12. This algorithm requires only subtraction and comparison operations but can take a number of steps proportional to the difference between the initial numbers (e.g. gcd(1, 1001) will take 1000 steps).
- feast of orthodoxy — a solemn festival held on the first Sunday of Lent (Orthodoxy Sunday) commemorating the restoration of the use of icons in the church (a.d. 842) and the triumph over all heresies.
- feldenkrais method — a system of gentle movements that promote flexibility, coordination, and self-awareness
- flame-of-the-woods — an Indian evergreen shrub, Ixora coccinea, of the madder family, having red, tubular flowers in dense clusters.
- flash butt welding — a method of welding metal edge-to-edge with a powerful electric flash followed by the application of pressure.
- gas-discharge tube — any tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas
- give sb their head — If you give someone their head, you allow them to do what they want to do, without trying to advise or stop them.
- gladden sb's heart — If you say that something gladdens someone's heart, you mean that it makes them feel pleased and hopeful.
- goods and chattels — personal property
- grandfather clause — U.S. History. a clause in the constitutions of some Southern states after 1890 intended to permit whites to vote while disfranchising blacks: it exempted from new literacy and property qualifications for voting those men entitled to vote before 1867 and their lineal descendants.
- hand it to someone — to give credit to someone
- handlebar mustache — A handlebar mustache is a long thick mustache with curled ends.
- harnessed antelope — any African antelope of the genus Tragelaphus, especially the bushbuck, having the body marked with white stripes and spots that resemble a harness, and, in the male, long, gently spiraling horns.
- haud your wheesht! — be silent! hush!
- have a hand in sth — If you have a hand in something such as an event or activity, you are involved in it.
- have got to do sth — You use have got to when you are saying that something is necessary or must happen in the way stated. In informal American English, the 'have' is sometimes omitted.
- have words with sb — If one person has words with another, or if two or more people have words, they have a serious discussion or argument, especially because one has complained about the other's behaviour.
- headquarters staff — the people who work at the headquarters of an organization
- hearts and flowers — maudlin sentimentality: The play is a period piece, full of innocence abused and hearts and flowers.
- heteroscedasticity — (statistics) The property of a series of random variables of 'not' every variable having the same finite variance.
- heteroskedasticity — Alternative spelling of heteroscedasticity.
- hexaphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with six units of phosphoric acid.
- histamine headache — cluster headache.
- hold a reservation — If a hotel holds a reservation, it keeps a room for someone, and does not give it to someone else.
- homelands movement — the programme to resettle native Australians on their tribal lands
- honour moderations — (at Oxford University) the first public examination, in which candidates are placed into one of three classes of honours
- house of delegates — the lower house of the General Assembly in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland.
- hydroxytryptamines — Plural form of hydroxytryptamine.
- hyperaldosteronism — aldosteronism.
- hypophosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated to a less than normal extent, or less than fully.
- incidental charges — Incidental charges are costs of items and services that are not part of the main bill.
- industrial hygiene — the science that assesses, controls, and prevents occupational factors or sources of stress in the workplace that may significantly affect the health and well-being of employees or of the community in general
- industrial vehicle — a vehicle designed for use in industry
- kitchen-sink drama — a type of drama of the 1950s depicting the sordid aspects of domestic reality
- light displacement — the weight of a ship with all its permanent equipment, excluding the weight of cargo, persons, ballast, dunnage, and fuel, but usually including the weight of permanent ballast and water used to operate steam machinery.
- materials handling — the loading, unloading, and movement of goods, as within a factory or warehouse, especially by the aid of mechanical devices.
- matthias schleiden — Matthias Jakob [mah-tee-ahs yah-kawp] /mɑˈti ɑs ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1804–81, German botanist.
- median lethal dose — the quantity of a lethal substance, as a poison or pathogen, or of ionizing radiation that will kill 50 percent of the organisms subjected to it in a specified time period. Symbol: LD 5 0.
- methylated spirits — ethyl alcohol denatured with methyl alcohol for the purpose of preventing its use as an alcoholic beverage.
- monophosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with a single unit of phosphoric acid.
- netherlands guiana — a former name of Suriname.
- northeast corridor — the long, narrow strip of land between Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C., containing many adjacent urban areas.
- old man of the sea — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) an old man who clung to the shoulders of Sindbad the Sailor for many days and nights.
- on the danger list — critically ill in hospital
- one's heart bleeds — used to express sympathetic grief, but often used ironically
- out of one's hands — no longer one's responsibility