16-letter words containing a, h, e, d, f
- full steam ahead — If something such as a plan or a project goes full steam ahead, it progresses quickly.
- garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
- half life period — Physics. the time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive substance to disintegrate.
- have a field day — If someone is having a field day, they are very busy doing something that they enjoy, even though it may be hurtful for other people.
- hay-scented fern — a fern, Dennstaedtia punctilobula, of eastern North America, having brittle, yellow-green fronds.
- head normal form — (theory, reduction) (HNF) A term describing a lambda expression whose top level is either a variable, a data value, a built-in function applied to too few arguments, or a lambda abstraction whose body is not reducible. I.e. the top level is neither a redex nor a lambda abstraction with a reducible body. An expression in HNF may contain redexes in argument postions whereas a normal form may not. Compare Weak Head Normal Form.
- head post office — the main post office in a town
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
- hold a brief for — to argue for; champion
- homme d'affaires — a businessman.
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- hydroferricyanic — (chemistry) Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen.
- in the shadow of — very close to; verging upon
- kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
- la rochefoucauld — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.
- lady of the lake — a narrative poem (1810) by Sir Walter Scott.
- leasehold reform — reform of the law relating to leasehold property
- left-hand dagger — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
- life after death — If you talk about life after death, you are discussing the possibility that people may continue to exist in some form after they die.
- luck of the draw — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
- manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
- matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
- mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
- mohammed of ghor — (Mu'izz-ad-din) died 1206, Muslim Sultan of Ghazni 1173–1206: established Muslim power in India.
- no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
- north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- of human bondage — a novel (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham.
- off-road vehicle — An off-road vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
- on the safe side — as a precaution
- one for the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- order of the day — the agenda for an assembly, meeting, group, or organization.
- paraformaldehyde — a white, crystalline polymer of formaldehyde, (HCOH) n , from which it is obtained by evaporation of the aqueous solution: used chiefly as an antiseptic.
- phase difference — the difference between two sinusoidally varying quantities that have the same frequency, measured either as an angle or a time
- red-flannel hash — hash made of ground corned beef, potatoes, and beets
- rule of the road — any of the regulations concerning the safe handling of vessels under way with respect to one another, imposed by a government on ships in its own waters or upon its own ships on the high seas.
- soft in the head — stupid or foolish
- south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- spiny-rayed fish — any of various fishes, as basses and perches, that have sharp, often pointed and usually rigid fin spines.
- streets ahead of — superior to, more advanced than, etc
- sutherland falls — a waterfall in New Zealand, on SW South Island. 1904 feet (580 meters) high.
- take the lid off — to make startling or spectacular revelations about
- twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
- uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
- way of the world — a comedy of manners (1700) by William Congreve.
- wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
- with a free hand — with generosity; lavishly