11-letter words containing a, d, h, e, r
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hand-letter — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- hand-reared — (of an animal or bird) kept and looked after by a person, rather than by its mother, when young
- hand-worker — a person who does handwork
- handbreadth — a unit of linear measure from 2½ to 4 inches (6.4 to 10 cm).
- handcrafted — handicraft.
- handcrafter — One who handcrafts or engages in handcraft or handicraft.
- handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
- handwringer — a person who wrings the hands often as a display of worry or upset
- handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
- handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
- hang glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hang-glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- 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 cheese — an unpleasant, difficult, or adverse situation: It's hard cheese for the unskilled worker these days.
- hard hitter — a bowler hat
- hard palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- hard rubber — rubber vulcanized with a large amount of sulfur, usually 25–35 percent, to render it stiff and comparatively inflexible.
- hard sector — (storage) An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
- 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-coated — having a coarsely textured coat, as a dog.
- hard-earned — A hard-earned victory or hard-earned cash is a victory or money that someone deserves because they have worked hard for it.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- hard-handed — oppressive or tyrannical; stern or cruel.
- hard-headed — not easily moved or deceived; practical; shrewd.
- hard-ticket — a ticket entitling one to a reserved seat.
- hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardhearted — unfeeling; unmerciful; pitiless.
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardly ever — rarely
- hardmouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- hardpressed — Subject to difficulty in accomplishing or making progress.
- hardwareman — (obsolete) An ironmonger.
- hardwearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.
- hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- head collar — the part of a bridle that fits round a horse's head
- head doctor — chief medical officer
- 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-banger — metalhead.
- head-hunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- 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.
- headbangers — Plural form of headbanger.