14-letter words containing s, h, o, d
- 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.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- decorated shed — a contemporary design concept characterized by buildings generally of purely utilitarian design but with fronts intended to give them more grandeur or to announce their functions.
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- demythologised — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologise.
- depth of focus — the amount by which the distance between the camera lens and the film can be altered without the resulting image appearing blurred
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
- detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
- diamond-shaped — rhombic
- diaphanousness — The quality of being diaphanous.
- diffeomorphism — a differentiable homeomorphism.
- dio chrysostom — 2nd century ad, Greek orator and philosopher
- discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
- 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
- do one's thing — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- do the honours — If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public event, they act as host or perform some official function.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- driving school — vehicle operation lessons
- 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
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- electroshocked — Simple past tense and past participle of electroshock.
- endophenotypes — Plural form of endophenotype.
- 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.
- fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
- 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
- fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
- flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
- forehandedness — Quality of being forehanded.
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.