14-letter words containing a, n, d, e
- hand over hand — grasping with alternate hands
- hand's-breadth — handbreadth
- hand-delivered — (of a letter or parcel) delivered by the sender rather than a postman or courier
- hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
- handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
- hard-core porn — Hard-core porn is pornography that shows sex in a very detailed way, or shows very violent or unpleasant sex.
- hardhandedness — the condition of having hard or thickened skin on the hands due to manual work
- hardheadedness — The characteristic of being hardheaded.
- harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
- hauts-de-seine — a department in N France. 63 sq. mi. (163 sq. km). Capital: Nanterre.
- have a down on — to bear ill will towards (someone or something)
- have a hand in — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- have a load on — to be intoxicated
- have a mind to — think about doing
- 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.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- 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.
- heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
- heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
- heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
- height of land — a watershed
- here and there — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- 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
- highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
- hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
- hither and yon — Hither and thither means in many different directions or places, and in a disorganized way. In American English, the expression hither and yon is sometimes used.
- holiday season — period: November to January
- home and hosed — definitely safe or successful
- homeward bound — going home
- hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
- household name — a person or thing that is very well known
- 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
- hurricane deck — a deck at the top of a passenger steamer, having a roof supported by light scantlings.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
- hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
- hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.