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14-letter words containing s, e, a, d, h

  • news headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day
  • nonestablished — without the official support of the government
  • north cascades — a national park in NW Washington: site of glaciers and mountain lakes. 789 sq. mi. (2043 sq. km).
  • northeastwards — northeastward.
  • northwestwards — northwestward.
  • off one's head — If you say that someone is off their head, you think that their ideas or behaviour are very strange, foolish, or dangerous.
  • on one's hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • one's head off — loudly or excessively
  • openhandedness — The characteristic of being openhanded.
  • ordinary share — British. a share of common stock.
  • osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
  • outlandishness — The quality of being outlandish.
  • outside chance — a slight chance or likelihood
  • over sb's head — If someone does something over another person's head, they do it without asking them or discussing it with them, especially when they should do so because the other person is in a position of authority.
  • overemphasised — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasise.
  • overemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasize.
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
  • paedomorphosis — the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines
  • paper-shredder — a piece of machinery which shreds paper into fine strips, so as to destroy private documents, etc
  • parish records — historical documents of a district
  • polysaccharide — a carbohydrate, as starch, inulin, or cellulose, containing more than three monosaccharide units per molecule, the units being attached to each other in the manner of acetals, and therefore capable of hydrolysis by acids or enzymes to monosaccharides.
  • preestablished — to establish beforehand.
  • pseudaesthesia — imaginary sensation, like that of an amputated limb
  • pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
  • pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
  • pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
  • purchase order — document requesting to buy sth
  • pyramid scheme — pyramid (def 8).
  • radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
  • radiotherapist — radiologist
  • raise the wind — to obtain the necessary funds
  • ranch dressing — seasoned mayonnaise sauce
  • reach-me-downs — trousers
  • redear sunfish — a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis microlophos, of the lower Mississippi valley and southeastern states, having the gill cover margined with scarlet.
  • residence hall — Residence halls are buildings with rooms or apartments, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the school year.
  • rhode islander — a person born or living in Rhode Island
  • ride the rails — Someone who rides the rails travels by train, especially over a long period of time and without buying a ticket.
  • rise and shine — get out of bed
  • sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
  • saddam hussein — Also, Hosein, Husain. (al-Husayn) a.d. 629?–680, Arabian caliph, the son of Ali and Fatima and the brother of Hasan.
  • saddle leather — hide, as from a cow or bull, that undergoes vegetable tanning and is used for saddlery.
  • sandhill crane — a North American crane, Grus canadensis, having bluish-gray plumage and a red forehead.
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • satellite dish — dish (def 8).
  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • scorched earth — military policy: destroying enemy crops
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
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