13-letter words containing t, o, d, s, h
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- do the dishes — do the washing up, wash the dishes
- do the honors — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- do-nothingism — the policy or practice of opposing a specific measure or change simply by refusing to consider or act on proposals; deliberate obstructionism.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
- downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
- draw the shot — to deliver the bowl in such a way that it approaches the jack
- drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
- drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- earth-goddess — a goddess of fertility and vegetation.
- east hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
- endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
- feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
- for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
- gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
- go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
- gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
- gunshot wound — bullet injury caused by a firearm
- hampton roads — a channel in SE Virginia between the mouth of the James River and Chesapeake Bay: battle between the Monitor and the Virginia 1862.
- hand controls — a set of controls in some cars, operated by hand, that have the same function as the accelerator, brake, and clutch pedals
- head of state — the person who holds the highest position in a national government: a meeting of heads of state.
- head of steam — momentum; driving power
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
- hertfordshire — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
- hexadactylous — hexadactylic
- histiophoroid — of or relating to the sailfish
- histodialysis — histolysis.
- holy saturday — the Saturday in Holy Week.
- holy thursday — Ascension Day.
- homestead act — a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
- homestead law — any law exempting homesteads from seizure or sale for debt.
- homoscedastic — having the same variance.
- honest to god — real or genuine.
- honest-to-god — real or genuine.
- horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- hotheadedness — The state or characteristic of being hotheaded; the tendency to be easily infuriated or provoked.
- hound's tooth — a pattern of broken or jagged checks, used on a variety of fabrics.
- house-trained — housebroken.