14-letter words containing s, l, a, h, d
- sailing dinghy — a small boat or dinghy with a single mast, used esp for recreational sailing
- sandhill crane — a North American crane, Grus canadensis, having bluish-gray plumage and a red forehead.
- sandwich glass — any of various forms of glassware manufactured at Sandwich, Mass., from 1825 to c1890.
- sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
- satellite dish — dish (def 8).
- scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
- scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
- self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
- shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
- sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
- sheffield lake — a town in N Ohio.
- shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
- shoulder blade — the scapula.
- shoulder board — one of a pair of narrow, stiff, cloth patches bearing an insignia of rank and worn on the shoulders by a commissioned officer.
- shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
- shoulder strap — a strap worn over the shoulder, as to support a garment.
- shropshire lad — a volume of poetry (1896) by A. E. Housman.
- sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- simple-hearted — free of deceit; artless; sincere.
- single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
- skiing holiday — a holiday taken (esp to somewhere that it snows) for the purpose of going skiing
- slash and burn — Slash and burn is a method of farming that involves clearing land by destroying and burning all the trees and plants on it, farming there for a short time, and then moving on to clear a new piece of land.
- slash-and-burn — of a method of agriculture used in the tropics, in which forest vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cropped for a few years, then the forest is allowed to reinvade.
- south portland — a city in SW Maine.
- stand-off half — a player who acts as a link between his scrum half and three-quarter backs
- steely-hearted — hard-hearted
- straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
- sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
- sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
- sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
- sulphuric acid — Sulphuric acid is a colourless, oily, and very powerful acid.
- surajah dowlah — Siraj-ud-daula.
- swelled-headed — an inordinately grand opinion of oneself; conceit.
- swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
- swollen-headed — conceited
- texas hold 'em — a popular variety of poker in which each player can use any or all of five shared cards in combination with either or both of two private cards to form the best possible hand of five cards
- the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
- the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
- the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
- the waste land — a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.
- the-federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
- threaded glass — glass decorated with a pattern produced by variegated glass filaments.
- ultrahazardous — extremely or excessively hazardous
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- undiminishable — unable to be diminished
- vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
- voroshilovgrad — a city in E Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.
- well-fashioned — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- well-rehearsed — to practice (a musical composition, a play, a speech, etc.) in private prior to a public presentation.