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15-letter words containing t, h, r, e, o, d

  • dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
  • do the dirty on — to behave meanly or unkindly towards
  • doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
  • dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
  • dongola leather — a leather similar to kid, made from goatskin, sheepskin, or calfskin.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
  • downheartedness — The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
  • droste-hulshoff — Annette Elisabeth Freiin von [ah-net-uh ey-lee-zah-bet frahy-in fuh n] /ɑˈnɛt ə eɪˈli zɑˌbɛt ˈfraɪ ɪn fən/ (Show IPA), 1797–1848, German poet.
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
  • edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • eleutherodactyl — (of a bird) having the hind toe free
  • ergatandromorph — an ant with the characteristics of both worker and male
  • fairy godfather — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godfather.
  • fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • flight recorder — an electronic device aboard an aircraft that automatically records some aspects of the aircraft's performance in flight.
  • forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
  • foresightedness — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
  • foster daughter — a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • frederick northChristopher, pen name of John Wilson.
  • freedom fighter — a fighter for freedom, especially a person who battles against established forces of tyranny and dictatorship.
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • get the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
  • gödel's theorem — either of two theorems published by the mathematician Kurt Gödel in 1931 that prove all mathematical systems are incomplete in that their truth or consistency can only be proved using a system of a higher order
  • godfather offer — a takeover bid pitched so high that the management of the target company is unable to dissuade shareholders from accepting it
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • goodheartedness — The quality of being goodhearted.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • grandparenthood — The state of being a grandparent.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • hard row to hoe — a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line: a row of apple trees.
  • haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
  • have words with — to argue angrily with
  • hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
  • hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
  • heart condition — cardiac disorder
  • heart tamponade — tamponade (def 2).
  • hearth and home — domestic realm
  • hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
  • hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
  • hermaphroditism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
  • hernando cortes — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
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