11-letter words containing a, d, h, e, r, i
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard hitter — a bowler hat
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hard-bodied — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- hard-ticket — a ticket entitling one to a reserved seat.
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardwearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- head injury — wound to the head
- head margin — the empty space between the first line or other printed element on a page and the top of the page.
- head waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- head-strict — (theory) A head-strict function will not necessarily evaluate every cons cell of its (list) argument, but whenever it does evaluate a cons cell it will also evaluate the element in the head of that cell. An example of a head-strict function is beforeZero :: [Int] -> [Int] beforeZero [] = [] beforeZero (0:xs) = [] beforeZero (x:xs) = x : beforeZero xs which returns a list up to the first zero. This pattern of evaluation is important because it is common in functions which operate on a list of inputs. See also tail-strict, hyperstrict.
- head-waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- hearing aid — a compact electronic amplifier worn to improve one's hearing, usually placed in or behind the ear.
- hearing dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- hemihydrate — a hydrate in which there are two molecules of the compound for each molecule of water.
- heparinized — Simple past tense and past participle of heparinize.
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- hereditable — heritable.
- hierodeacon — a monk who is also a deacon.
- highhearted — Alt form high-hearted.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
- hinderlands — the buttocks
- hindquarter — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
- his-and-her — denoting two matching or identical items, one intended for use by a male and the other by a female: his-and-her towels in the bathroom; his-and-her sweatshirts.
- historiated — (especially of initial letters on an illuminated manuscript) decorated with animals, flowers, or other designs that have a narrative or symbolic purpose.
- hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
- hiv-related — related to the HIV virus
- hod carrier — a mason's assistant whose work is to carry hods of materials to the mason.
- holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
- horseradish — a cultivated plant, Armoracia rusticana, of the mustard family, having small, white flowers.
- hydralazine — a white crystalline powder, C 8 H 8 N 4 , that dilates blood vessels and is used in the treatment of hypertension.
- hyperdorian — of or related to the mode above the Dorian mode in ancient Greek music
- hyperlydian — relating to the highest scale or mode in ancient Greek music
- hypoid gear — a gear resembling a bevel gear in form but designed to mesh with a similar gear in such a way that their axes would not intersect, one axis crossing over the other at approximately a right angle.
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- ideographic — an ideogram.
- idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
- in the dark — having very little or no light: a dark room.
- ironhearted — hardhearted or callous
- isodiaphere — one of two or more nuclides in which the difference between the number of neutrons and the number of protons is the same