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16-letter words containing s, h, o

  • diphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with two units of phosphoric acid.
  • diphthongisation — The process by which a single vowel sound (monophthong) shifts to a two-vowel vocalization (diphthong).
  • direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
  • director's chair — a lightweight folding armchair with transversely crossed legs and having a canvas seat and back panel, as traditionally used by motion-picture directors.
  • discographically — In terms of discography.
  • discovered check — a check that is effected by moving an intervening piece from the line of attack of a queen, rook, or bishop.
  • discovery method — a largely unstructured, situational method or philosophy of teaching whereby students are permitted to find solutions to problems on their own or at their own pace, often jointly in group activities, either independent of or under the guidance of a teacher.
  • dishonorableness — The property of being dishonorable.
  • disorderly house — a house of prostitution; brothel.
  • dneprodzerzhinsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
  • do business with — trade or deal with
  • do sth in person — If you do something in person, you do it yourself rather than letting someone else do it for you.
  • do the necessary — to do something that is necessary in a particular situation
  • dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
  • drop a bombshell — If someone drops a bombshell, they give you a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
  • duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
  • eastern orthodox — of or relating to the Orthodox Church.
  • easy on the eyes — good looking, physically attractive
  • echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
  • electrochemistry — The branch of chemistry that deals with the relations between electrical and chemical phenomena.
  • electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
  • electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
  • electronic flash — Photography
  • electrosynthesis — synthesis produced by means of an electric current
  • electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
  • enough is enough — expressing exasperation
  • epiphenomenalism — (philosophy, psychology, uncountable) The doctrine that mental states and processes are simply incidental effects of physiological events in the brain or nervous system and cannot themselves cause any effects in the material world.
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
  • eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
  • escutcheon plate — a plate or shield that surrounds a keyhole, door handle, light switch, etc, esp an ornamental one protecting a door or wall surface
  • ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
  • ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
  • etiopathogenesis — (medicine) The cause and subsequent development of an abnormal condition or of a disease.
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • exotic shorthair — a short-haired variety of domestic cat with a stocky body, developed through crossing Persian cats with American shorthairs
  • extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
  • false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
  • false dragonhead — a North American plant, Physostegia virginiana, of the mint family, having a spike of tubular, two-lipped, pink or white flowers.
  • fantail goldfish — an artificially bred, hardy variety of goldfish, usually oval-shaped and deep orange or calico, with a deeply cleft, four-lobed tail held in line with the body.
  • farmhouse cheese — cheese that is made by traditional methods, on or as if on a farm
  • farmington hills — a city in SE Michigan.
  • fashion business — the business dealing with style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
  • fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
  • fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
  • fashion magazine — periodical about trendy clothing
  • fast of gedaliah — Tzom Gedaliah.
  • father confessor — confessor (def 2).
  • father-surrogate — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
  • fermat's theorem — the theorem that an integer raised to a prime power leaves the same remainder as the integer itself when divided by the prime.
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