14-letter words containing s, h, i, d, e
- diaphanousness — The quality of being diaphanous.
- die in harness — to die while still working or active, prior to retirement
- diffeomorphism — a differentiable homeomorphism.
- disaccharidase — an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides, as sucrose or lactose, to produce monosaccharides, as fructose or glucose.
- discharge head — The discharge head is the pressure at the discharge of a pump, measured as a height.
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- discharge rate — The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disestablished — Simple past tense and past participle of disestablish.
- disestablishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disestablish.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
- disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
- displenishment — the act of displenishing
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- do one's thing — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
- english saddle — a lightweight saddle with a low cantle and pommel and no horn, designed to place the rider's weight forward onto the withers
- faraday shield — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
- field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
- fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
- finished goods — Finished goods are goods that have completed the manufacturing process, but have not yet been sold.
- fireproof dish — a dish that can withstand heat
- fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- four-eyed fish — a small, surface-swimming fish, Anableps anableps, inhabiting shallow, muddy streams of Mexico and Central America, having each eye divided, with the upper half adapted for seeing in air and the lower half for seeing in water.
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
- get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.