11-letter words containing a, d, r, t
- hard sector — (storage) An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hard-coated — having a coarsely textured coat, as a dog.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- hard-fought — firmly or passionately contested or struggled for
- 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).
- hardmouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- harold holt — Harold Edward, 1908–67, Australian political leader: prime minister 1966–67.
- head doctor — chief medical officer
- head waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- 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.
- header tank — a reservoir, tank, or hopper that maintains a gravity feed or a static fluid pressure in an apparatus
- headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
- headmasters — Plural form of headmaster.
- headquarter — to situate in headquarters.
- headstander — A small deep-bodied freshwater fish of the Amazon region, popular in aquaria. It swims and feeds at an oblique angle with the head down.
- headstreams — Plural form of headstream.
- headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
- headteacher — The most senior teacher in a school.
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- health card — an identity card required to obtain public health insurance services
- heartedness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being hearted.
- heartshaped — Alternative form of heart-shaped.
- hemihydrate — a hydrate in which there are two molecules of the compound for each molecule of water.
- heptahedron — a solid figure having seven faces.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- herald moth — a noctuid moth, Scoliopteryx libatrix, having brownish cryptically mottled forewings and plain dull hind wings. The adult hibernates and has a prolonged life
- hereditable — heritable.
- hexahydrate — a hydrate that contains six molecules of water, as magnesium chloride, MgCl 2 ⋅6H 2 O.
- highhearted — Alt form high-hearted.
- 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.
- historiated — (especially of initial letters on an illuminated manuscript) decorated with animals, flowers, or other designs that have a narrative or symbolic purpose.
- hit-and-run — guilty of fleeing the scene of an accident or injury one has caused, especially a vehicular accident, thereby attempting to evade being identified and held responsible: a hit-and-run driver.
- hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
- hiv-related — related to the HIV virus
- homesteader — the owner or holder of a homestead.
- horned toad — an insectivorous iguanid lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of western North America, having hornlike spines on the head and a flattened body covered with spiny scales.
- horse-trade — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- horsetrader — (literally) A person who buys and sells horses, especially one who makes such transactions in a clever or skillful manner.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hurdle rate — the rate of return that a proposed project must provide if it is to be worth considering: usually calculated as the cost of the capital involved adjusted by a risk factor
- hydroborate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several anions containing hydrogen bound to boron, especially the simplest one BH4-; any salt or complex containing such an anion.
- hydrogenate — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrolysate — any compound formed by hydrolysis.