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

  • forest of dean — a royal forest in Gloucestershire, in W England. About 180 sq. mi. (475 sq. km).
  • formal methods — (mathematics, specification)   Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • go pear-shaped — If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
  • gold medallist — the winner of competition or race, who is awarded a gold medal
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
  • gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
  • grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
  • grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
  • graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
  • great red spot — a large, usually reddish gaseous vortex on the surface of Jupiter, about 14,000 by 30,000 km, that drifts about slowly as the planet rotates and has been observed for several hundred years.
  • great-grandson — a grandson of one's son or daughter.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
  • hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hardware store — shop selling DIY or home-improvement supplies
  • harewood house — a mansion near Harrogate in Yorkshire: built 1759–71 by John Carr for the Lascelles family; interior decoration by Robert Adam
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • heads or tails — a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • hepatectomised — Alt form hepatectomized.
  • hermaphrodites — Plural form of hermaphrodite.
  • hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
  • hexosaminidase — the enzymes that catalyse the metabolism of gangliosides
  • holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
  • holiday season — period: November to January
  • home and hosed — definitely safe or successful
  • hors de combat — disabled or injured
  • house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
  • household arts — activities such as sewing, cooking, etc, that are conducted in the running of a household
  • household name — a person or thing that is very well known
  • household soap — a substance that you use with water for washing clothes, removing stains, cleaning floors, etc
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
  • hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
  • ice-cream soda — An ice-cream soda is a dessert made from ice cream, fruit-flavoured syrup, and soda water. It is usually served in a tall glass.
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