15-letter words containing t, h, r, a, l, d
- forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
- french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
- gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- great-heartedly — in a great-hearted manner
- grind to a halt — If a country's economy or something such as a process grinds to a halt, it gradually becomes slower or less active until it stops.
- hale and hearty — in good health
- half-understood — partially understood
- halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
- hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
- heavy-heartedly — in a heavy-hearted manner
- heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- hewlett-packard — (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP was founded in 1939 and employs 96600 people, 58900 in the USA. They have manufacturing and R&D establishments in 54 cities in 16 countries and approximately 600 sales and service offices in 110 countries. Their revenue (in 1992/1993?) was $20.3 billion. The Chief Executive Officer is Lewis E. Platt. HP's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Pacific, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris exchanges. Quarterly sales $6053M, profits $347M (Aug 1994).
- hexahydrothymol — menthol.
- holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
- horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
- hospital doctor — a hospital doctor works in a hospital, rather than as a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- hydraulic motor — a motor that converts the kinetic or potential energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- hydropathically — in a hydropathic manner; in a manner relating to hydropathy
- hydrostatically — In a hydrostatic manner.
- hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- identical rhyme — rhyme created by the repetition of a word.
- indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
- ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
- labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
- lead tetraethyl — tetraethyllead.
- left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
- like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- neanderthal man — a member of an extinct subspecies of powerful, physically robust humans, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, that inhabited Europe and western and central Asia c100,000–40,000 b.c.
- norethandrolone — An anabolic steroid.
- north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
- northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
- old father time — time personified
- ornithodelphian — of or relating to mammals of the class Ornithodelphia
- orthodontically — from an orthodontic point of view
- orthopaedically — in an orthopaedic manner
- paracetaldehyde — paraldehyde.
- passport holder — a person who has a passport
- photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
- pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.