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18-letter words containing s, h, e, p, d, o

  • prometheus unbound — a drama in verse (1820) by Shelley.
  • pseudo-anarchistic — a person who advocates or believes in anarchy or anarchism.
  • pull one's head in — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • put heads together — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • rhodes scholarship — one of a number of scholarships at Oxford University, established by the will of Cecil Rhodes, for selected students (Rhodes scholars) from the British Commonwealth and the United States.
  • rooted to the spot — If you are rooted to the spot, you are unable to move because you are very frightened or shocked.
  • scholarship holder — a person who, because of academic merit, receives financial aid for their studies
  • secondary syphilis — the second stage of syphilis, characterized by eruptions of the skin and mucous membrane.
  • self-comprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
  • sheltered workshop — a place of employment for persons with disabilities where their rights are protected and their needs are met.
  • shipping documents — documents relating to the sending of a shipment of goods, for example containing details of contents, weight, value etc.
  • sodium hyposulfite — sodium thiosulfate.
  • sonic depth finder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
  • sound spectrograph — an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.
  • spotted flycatcher — a European woodland songbird, Muscicapa striata, with a greyish-brown streaked plumage: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers)
  • temporary hardness — hardness of water due to the presence of magnesium and calcium hydrogencarbonates, which can be precipitated as carbonates by boiling
  • the encyclopedists — the writers of the French Encyclopedia (1751-72) edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, which contained the advanced ideas of the period
  • the heavens opened — it started pouring with rain
  • the lords temporal — (in Britain) peers other than bishops in their capacity as members of the House of Lords
  • to pick and choose — If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
  • to sweep the board — If someone sweeps the board in a competition or election, they win nearly everything that it is possible to win.
  • white-spotted hyla — a type of tree frog (H. leucophyllata) of tropical America
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