14-letter words containing s, h, o, e
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
- courtesy coach — a free coach
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
- credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
- cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
- crossed cheque — a cheque with two parallel lines on it, which is payable only into a bank account
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
- cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
- cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- 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
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- east northport — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- east-northeast — the point on a compass midway between east and northeast.
- east-southeast — the point on a compass midway between east and southeast.
- echinococcosis — a parasitic disease caused by tapeworms of the genus Echinococcosis
- ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.