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16-letter words containing t, h, e, s, n, d

  • schneider trophy — a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931
  • schouten islands — a group of islands belonging to Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific Oceans, off the N coast of New Guinea.
  • scratch hardness — resistance of a material, as a stone or metal, to scratching by one of several other materials, the known hardnesses of which are assembled into a standard scale, as the Mohs' scale of minerals.
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • shoot one's load — (of a man) to ejaculate at orgasm
  • shorthand writer — a person trained to write in shorthand
  • shortsightedness — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • shut the door on — to refuse to think about
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • soft in the head — stupid or foolish
  • sonata da chiesa — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, that usually consists of four movements alternating between slow and fast.
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
  • st. john's-bread — carob (def 2).
  • stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • standard english — the English language in its most widely accepted form, as written and spoken by educated people in both formal and informal contexts, having universal currency while incorporating regional differences.
  • stannic chloride — a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl 4 , soluble in water and alcohol, that converts with water to a crystalline solid: used for electrically conductive and electroluminescent coatings and in ceramics.
  • stannic sulphide — an insoluble solid compound of tin usually existing as golden crystals or as a yellowish-brown powder: used as a pigment. Formula: SnS2
  • steric hindrance — the prevention or retardation of inter- or intramolecular interactions as a result of the spatial structure of a molecule.
  • stick in the mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • stick-in-the-mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • strain hardening — a process in which a metal is permanently deformed in order to increase its resistance to further deformation
  • student teaching — the act of teaching in a school for a limited period under supervision as part of a course to qualify as a teacher
  • summation method — a method for associating a sum with a divergent series.
  • surround theater — a theater, concert hall, or the like, in which seats are arranged around or on all four sides of a central stage.
  • sutherland falls — a waterfall in New Zealand, on SW South Island. 1904 feet (580 meters) high.
  • tea and sympathy — a caring attitude, esp to someone in trouble
  • tension headache — a headache caused by muscle tension resulting from stress or overwork
  • thaddeus stevens — Alfred, 1817–75, English painter and sculptor.
  • the barren lands — a region of tundra in N Canada, extending westwards from Hudson Bay: sparsely inhabited, chiefly by Inuit
  • the mendip hills — a range of limestone hills in SW England, in N Somerset: includes the Cheddar Gorge and numerous caves. Highest point: 325 m (1068 ft)
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the renosterveld — an area of high altitude in SW South Africa, having fertile ground
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the second house — the second daily performance of a play or show
  • the sex industry — a commercial sector that employs sex workers in prostitution, pornography, etc.
  • the south island — the largest island of New Zealand, separated from the North Island by the Cook Strait. Pop: 1 048 200 (2013 est). Area: 153 947 sq km (59 439 sq miles)
  • thioarsenic acid — any of three hypothetical acids, H3AsS4, HAsS3, and H4As2S7, known only in the forms of their salts
  • this-worldliness — concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.
  • tibetan buddhism — the form of Mahayana Buddhism that developed and is practiced primarily in Tibet and some nearby nations: its spiritual leader is the Dalai Lama
  • true-heartedness — the quality of being true-hearted
  • under sb's thumb — If you are under someone's thumb, you are under their control, or very heavily influenced by them.
  • undernourishment — If someone is suffering from undernourishment, they have poor health because they are not eating enough food or are eating the wrong kind of food.
  • ward christensen — (person)   The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmed mainframes for IBM. Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on 1978-02-16 in Chicago. It ran on an S-100 computer with 64k RAM and two single-sided 8" 250kB diskettes.
  • western sandwich — a sandwich with a western omelet for a filling.
  • white sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
  • wholeheartedness — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
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