14-letter words containing a, d, h, e, r, i
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
- fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
- forehand drive — (in racket sports) a type of shot made on the forehand side
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
- graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
- haberdasheries — Plural form of haberdashery.
- hair's breadth — A hair's breadth is a very small degree or amount.
- hair's-breadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-delivered — (of a letter or parcel) delivered by the sender rather than a postman or courier
- hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
- harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
- head restraint — a rest or support of any kind for the head.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- headmastership — The role or position of headmaster.
- headmistresses — Plural form of headmistress.
- heads or tails — a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
- heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
- heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
- helicopter dad — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
- helicopter pad — landing area
- herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
- hereditability — heritable.
- hereditariness — (rare) The property of being hereditary.
- hermaphrodites — Plural form of hermaphrodite.
- hermaphroditic — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
- hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
- herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.
- highland dress — the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
- highly charged — electrical
- highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
- hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
- hither and yon — Hither and thither means in many different directions or places, and in a disorganized way. In American English, the expression hither and yon is sometimes used.
- holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
- homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
- hurricane deck — a deck at the top of a passenger steamer, having a roof supported by light scantlings.
- hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks