16-letter words containing t, o, a, d, s
- head post office — the main post office in a town
- health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
- hernando de soto — Hernando [her-nan-doh;; Spanish er-nahn-daw] /hərˈnæn doʊ;; Spanish ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), or Fernando [fer-nan-doh;; Spanish fer-nahn-daw] /fərˈnæn doʊ;; Spanish fɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), c1500–42, Spanish soldier and explorer in America.
- horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
- horseradish tree — a tropical tree, Moringa pterygosperma, having fragrant white flowers and seeds yielding a commercially useful oil.
- hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
- hydrostatic head — The hydrostatic head is the vertical height of a column of fluid.
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- icositetrahedron — a solid figure having 24 faces.
- immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
- in ones and twos — You can use in ones and twos to indicate that people do things or something happens gradually and in small groups.
- in the shadow of — very close to; verging upon
- indiscrimination — an act or instance of not discriminating.
- indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
- industrial union — a labor union composed of workers in various trades and crafts within one industry.
- information desk — helpdesk, information point
- inter-divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- interdimensional — Between dimensions.
- intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
- isle of portland — a rugged limestone peninsula in SW England, in Dorset, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus and by Chesil Bank: the lighthouse of Portland Bill lies at the S tip; famous for the quarrying of Portland stone, a fine building material. Pop (town): 12 000 (latest est)
- isophthalic acid — a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 8 H 6 O 2 , the meta isomer of phthalic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and plasticizers.
- it's no accident — You begin a sentence with 'it's no accident' if you want to suggest that something was done deliberately or has a logical explanation, although it might give the impression of having happened by chance.
- judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
- kurdaitcha shoes — (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced
- latissimus dorsi — a broad, flat muscle on each side of the midback, the action of which draws the arm backward and downward and rotates the front of the arm toward the body.
- lead by the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
- lonely hearts ad — an advertisement placed by someone who is trying to find a lover or a friend
- long-established — having a long history; old
- long-nosed skate — a fish; Raja oxyrinchus
- malcontentedness — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
- mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
- medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
- medulloblastomas — Plural form of medulloblastoma.
- menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
- metes and bounds — the precisely described boundary lines of a parcel of land, as found in a deed
- mexican standoff — a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can win.
- middle stone age — the Mesolithic period.
- mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
- month of sundays — a long time
- most wanted list — an actual or supposed listing of the names of persons who are urgently being sought for a specific reason, as apprehension for an alleged crime.
- mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- multidimensional — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
- mustard-coloured — of a brownish-yellow colour
- network database — (database) A kind of database management system in which each record type can have multiple owners, e.g. orders are owned by both customers and products. This contrasts with a hierarchical database (one owner) or relational database (no explicit owner).
- nicotine-stained — discoloured by the effects of nicotine