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15-letter words containing s, h, o, a, d

  • doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
  • downheartedness — The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
  • drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
  • dysmorphophobia — an obsessive fear that one's body, or any part of it, is repulsive or may become so
  • dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • fashion-forward — relating to, anticipating, or reflecting the most up-to-date fashion trends
  • fast-food chain — a chain of restaurants serving fast food
  • flesh and blood — offspring or relatives: one's own flesh and blood.
  • flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
  • forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
  • foster daughter — a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.
  • fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
  • geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • goodheartedness — The quality of being goodhearted.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • hamamelidaceous — belonging to the Hamamelidaceae, the witch hazel family of plants.
  • hang one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
  • hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
  • hare and hounds — an outdoor game in which certain players, the hares, start off in advance on a long run, scattering small pieces of paper, called the scent, with the other players, the hounds, following the trail so marked in an effort to catch the hares before they reach a designated point.
  • hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
  • have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
  • have words with — to argue angrily with
  • hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
  • head over heels — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • heads will roll — If you say that heads will roll as a result of something bad that has happened, you mean that people will be punished for it, especially by losing their jobs.
  • hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
  • heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
  • hermaphroditism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
  • hernando cortes — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • heteroscedastic — (of several distributions) having different variances
  • hold one's hand — to stop or postpone a planned action or punishment
  • holiday clothes — the clothes worn and bought for travelling on holiday, such as swimwear, skiwear, or clothes for hot or cold weather, etc
  • holyhead island — former name of Holy Island (def 2).
  • homochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth in which the sepals and petals are fused together and indistinguishable
  • horned screamer — a screamer, Anhima cornuta, of tropical South America, having a long, slender hornlike process projecting from the forehead.
  • horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
  • horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
  • hospital doctor — a hospital doctor works in a hospital, rather than as a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
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