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14-letter words containing a, h, n, d, s

  • handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • hardhandedness — the condition of having hard or thickened skin on the hands due to manual work
  • hardheadedness — The characteristic of being hardheaded.
  • hastings banda — Hastings Kamuzu [kah-moo-zoo] /kɑˈmu zu/ (Show IPA), 1906–97, Malawi physician, political leader, and public official: 1st president of Malawi 1966–94.
  • hauts-de-seine — a department in N France. 63 sq. mi. (163 sq. km). Capital: Nanterre.
  • head restraint — a rest or support of any kind for the head.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • hereditariness — (rare) The property of being hereditary.
  • herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.
  • hexosaminidase — the enzymes that catalyse the metabolism of gangliosides
  • highhandedness — The property of being highhanded.
  • highland dress — the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
  • highland games — a meeting in which competitions in sport, piping, and dancing are held: originating in the Highlands of Scotland
  • highs and lows — If you refer to the highs and lows of someone's life or career, you are referring to both the successful or happy times, and the unsuccessful or bad times.
  • hold sb's hand — If you ask someone to hold your hand at an event that you are worried about, you ask them to support you by being there with you.
  • hold to ransom — to keep (prisoners, property, etc) in confinement until payment for their release is made or received
  • holiday season — period: November to January
  • holland finish — an oil and sizing or starch finish applied to cotton fabrics to increase their opacity and strength.
  • home and hosed — definitely safe or successful
  • household name — a person or thing that is very well known
  • howland island — an island in the central Pacific, near the equator: U.S. meteorological station and airfield. 1 sq. mi. (2.6 sq. km).
  • humane studies — educational subjects or courses, or texts, that are, or were historically, considered to have a civilizing influence on those who read or studied them
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
  • hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
  • hypochondriacs — Plural form of hypochondriac.
  • in this regard — on this point
  • instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
  • invisible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
  • island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
  • jackson method — (programming)   A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
  • kedleston hall — a mansion near Derby in Derbyshire: rebuilt (1759–65) for the Curzon family by Matthew Brettingham, James Paine, and Robert Adam
  • landing lights — aircraft lights used when landing
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
  • merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
  • methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
  • midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
  • misapprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of misapprehend.
  • monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
  • nabuchodonosor — Nebuchadnezzar (def 1).
  • name and shame — If something such as a newspaper or an official body names and shames people who have performed badly or who have done something wrong, it identifies those people by name.
  • news headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day
  • nonestablished — without the official support of the government
  • north cascades — a national park in NW Washington: site of glaciers and mountain lakes. 789 sq. mi. (2043 sq. km).
  • northeastwards — northeastward.
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