11-letter words containing a, h, n, d, s
- dishearting — Present participle of disheart.
- dishonorary — tending to dishonour or disgrace
- dishwashing — the act of washing dishes.
- dispatching — Send off to a destination or for a purpose.
- draughtsman — a checker, as used in the game of checkers.
- draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
- dunderheads — Plural form of dunderhead.
- dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
- dysthanasia — (medicine, rare) The undue prolongation of life by artificial means in a person who cannot otherwise survive.
- endophagous — relating to endophagy
- enough said — understood
- faddishness — The state or condition of being faddish.
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- haggardness — having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn: the haggard faces of the tired troops.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
- hand signal — indication made by hand
- hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- hand-stitch — to stitch or sew by hand.
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- handbaskets — Plural form of handbasket.
- handfasting — Present participle of handfast.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
- 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.
- handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
- hard porn's — hard-core pornography.
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- 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 bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- headbangers — Plural form of headbanger.
- headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- 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.
- heartedness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being hearted.
- 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-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.
- heavenwards — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- hexahedrons — Plural form of hexahedron.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
- hinderlands — the buttocks