11-letter words containing a, d, i, s
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- grass widow — a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband.
- gravidities — Plural form of gravidity.
- guide vanes — fixed aerofoils that direct air, gas, or water into the moving blades of a turbine or into or around bends in ducts with minimum loss of energy
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- gum disease — dental infection
- hadrosaurid — (zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.
- hairdresser — a person who arranges or cuts hair.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hand signal — indication made by hand
- hand-stitch — to stitch or sew by hand.
- handfasting — Present participle of handfast.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
- handshaking — a gripping and shaking of right hands by two individuals, as to symbolize greeting, congratulation, agreement, or farewell.
- handsprings — Plural form of handspring.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
- harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.
- hash coding — (programming, algorithm) (Or "hashing") A scheme for providing rapid access to data items which are distinguished by some key. Each data item to be stored is associated with a key, e.g. the name of a person. A hash function is applied to the item's key and the resulting hash value is used as an index to select one of a number of "hash buckets" in a hash table. The table contains pointers to the original items. If, when adding a new item, the hash table already has an entry at the indicated location then that entry's key must be compared with the given key to see if it is the same. If two items' keys hash to the same value (a "hash collision") then some alternative location is used (e.g. the next free location cyclically following the indicated one). For best performance, the table size and hash function must be tailored to the number of entries and range of keys to be used. The hash function usually depends on the table size so if the table needs to be enlarged it must usually be completely rebuilt. When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. See also: btree, checksum, CRC, pseudorandom number, random, random number, soundex.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- 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.
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- heat island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
- heat shield — a coating or structure that surrounds part of the nose cone or other vulnerable surfaces of a spacecraft and, by heat absorption or ablation, protects them from excessive heating during reentry.
- heat-island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
- hinderlands — the buttocks
- hindoostani — a standard language and lingua franca of northern India based on a dialect of Western Hindi spoken around Delhi. Abbreviation: Hind. Compare Hindi (def 2), Urdu.
- hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
- hippodamist — a horse-tamer
- hippodamous — horse-taming
- 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.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- holy island — Also called Lindisfarne. an island off the E coast of Northumberland, England. 3 miles (4.8 km) long.
- horseradish — a cultivated plant, Armoracia rusticana, of the mustard family, having small, white flowers.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.