14-letter words containing s, h, e, d, r
- (the) odds are — the likelihood is
- a head for sth — If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid.
- anchorage dues — money paid so that a ship can anchor somewhere
- andhra pradesh — a state of SE India, on the Bay of Bengal: formed in 1953 from parts of Tamil Nadu (then called Madras) and Hyderabad states. Capital: Hyderabad. Pop: 75 727 541 (2001). Area: about 275 068 sq km (106 204 sq miles)
- andrew johnson — Andrew, 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69.
- androcephalous — having a human head
- archimandrites — Plural form of archimandrite.
- at loggerheads — If two or more people or groups are at loggerheads, they disagree very strongly with each other.
- audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
- austrian shade — a window shade in which the fabric falls in a series of puffy festoons created by vertical rows of shirring.
- barbados earth — a diatomaceous marl found in Barbados
- barrel-chested — A barrel-chested man has a large, rounded chest.
- basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
- be cursed with — to be afflicted with; suffer from
- bend the rules — to ignore rules or change them to suit one's own convenience
- bermuda shorts — close-fitting shorts that come down to the knees
- big red switch — (jargon) (BRS) IBM jargon for the power switch on a computer, especially the "Emergency Pull" switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This [email protected]%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare power cycle, three-finger salute, 120 reset; see also scram switch.
- blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
- boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
- bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
- brushed cotton — cotton fabric that is brushed to remove excess lint and fibres to leave a soft, smooth finish
- cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
- cash dispenser — A cash dispenser is a machine built into the wall of a bank or other building, which allows people to take out money from their bank account using a special card.
- cashier's desk — A cashier's desk is the same as a cash desk.
- casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
- catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
- cheddar cheese — a hard, smooth-textured cheese, made usually from the whole milk of cows and varying in color from white to deep yellow and in flavor from mild to sharp as it ages.
- cheese product — a processed cheese consisting in the U.S. of at least 50 percent cheese to which cheese whey or whey albumin may be added.
- chest expander — a device for strengthening the chest muscles, consisting of two handles attached to strong springs or elastic cords that the user pulls apart across the chest
- chevra kadisha — a Jewish burial society, usually composed of unpaid volunteers who provide funerals for members of their congregation
- child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
- children's day — the second Sunday in June, celebrated by Protestant churches with special programs for children: first started in the U.S. in 1868.
- china syndrome — a hypothetical nuclear-reactor accident in which the fuel would melt through the floor of the containment structure and burrow into the earth.
- chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
- chondrogenesis — the growth of cartilage
- chordamesoderm — a kind of mesoderm that develops into the notochord
- choroid plexus — a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid
- clamshell door — Often, clamshell doors. a door consisting of two panels that spread open vertically, as those located on the underside of some cargo planes.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
- crossed cheque — a cheque with two parallel lines on it, which is payable only into a bank account
- crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
- data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
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