9-letter words containing a, h, i, n, d
- gandhiism — the principles associated with Mohandas Gandhi, especially his principles of noncooperation and passive resistance in gaining political and social reforms.
- garnished — Simple past tense and past participle of garnish.
- gianthood — the condition of being a giant
- haberdine — a cod that has been dried and salted
- haciendas — Plural form of hacienda.
- hadrian i — died a.d. 795, pope 772–795.
- hadrian v — died 1276, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1276.
- hagridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- hagriding — Present participle of hagride.
- hairbands — Plural form of hairband.
- haldimand — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- hand-knit — to knit by hand.
- hand-list — a list containing some rough or brief details
- hand-pick — to pick by hand.
- hand-ride — to ride (a horse) in a race without using a whip or spurs, urging it on with only the hands.
- handbasin — Washbasin.
- handbills — Plural form of handbill.
- handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
- handicaps — Plural form of handicap.
- handiness — within easy reach; conveniently available; accessible: The aspirins are handy.
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- handmaids — Plural form of handmaid.
- handpiece — The part of a dental drill, surgical instrument, etc. that is held in the hand.
- handprint — an impression or mark made with the palm and fingers on a surface.
- handrails — Plural form of handrail.
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- handwrite — to write (something) by hand.
- hard link — (file system) One of several directory entries which refer to the same Unix file. A hard link is created with the "ln" (link) command: ln
where and are pathnames within the same file system. Hard links to the same file are indistinguishable from each other except that they have different pathnames. They all refer to the same inode and the inode contains all the information about a file. The standard ln command does not usually allow you to create a hard link to a directory, chiefly because the standard rm and rmdir commands do not allow you to delete such a link. Some systems provide link and unlink commands which give direct access to the system calls of the same name, for which no such restrictions apply. Normally all hard links to a file must be in the same file system because a directory entry just relates a pathname to an inode within the same file system. The only exception is a mount point. The restrictions on hard links to directories and between file systems are very common but are not mandated by POSIX. Symbolic links are often used instead of hard links because they do not suffer from these restrictions. The space associated with a file is not freed until all the hard links to the file are deleted. This explains why the system call to delete a file is called "unlink". - hard sign — the Cyrillic letter Ъ, ъ as used in Russian to indicate that the preceding consonant is not palatalized: not in official use since 1918.
- hard-line — adhering rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan; uncompromising or unyielding: hard-line union demands.
- hardening — a material that hardens another, as an alloy added to iron to make steel.
- hardiment — hardihood.
- hardiness — the capacity for enduring or sustaining hardship, privation, etc.; capability of surviving under unfavorable conditions.
- hardliner — Alternative spelling of hard-liner.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- harmdoing — the doing of harm
- harridans — Plural form of harridan.
- hazarding — Present participle of hazard.
- head wind — wind blowing head-on
- headiness — intoxicating: a heady wine.
- headlined — Simple past tense and past participle of headline.
- headliner — a performer whose name appears most prominently in a program or advertisement or on a marquee; star.
- headlines — Plural form of headline.
- headwinds — Plural form of headwind.
- hebridean — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- hendiadys — a figure in which a complex idea is expressed by two words connected by a copulative conjunction: “to look with eyes and envy” instead of “with envious eyes.”.
- heralding — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
- herniated — to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- highlands — a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).