14-letter words containing a, n, h, e, 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.
- in this regard — on this point
- indecipherable — not decipherable; illegible.
- indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
- 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.
- jackson method — (programming) A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- kedleston hall — a mansion near Derby in Derbyshire: rebuilt (1759–65) for the Curzon family by Matthew Brettingham, James Paine, and Robert Adam
- kidney machine — artificial kidney.
- kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
- land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
- landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
- language death — the complete displacement of one language by another in a population of speakers.
- langue de chat — a flat sweet finger-shaped biscuit
- leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- leland hayward — Leland, 1902–71, U.S. theatrical producer.
- life and death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
- life-and-death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
- maternal death — the death of a woman while pregnant or shortly after childbirth or an abortion
- medal of honor — The Medal of Honor is a medal that is given to members of the U.S. armed forces who have shown special courage or bravery in battle.
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
- methanoic acid — systematic name for formic acid
- methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
- michael jordan — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- 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.
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- 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.
- neanderthaloid — resembling or characteristic of the physical type of Neanderthal man.
- nebuchadnezzar — Also, Nebuchadrezzar [neb-uh-kuh d-rez-er, neb-yoo-] /ˌnɛb ə kədˈrɛz ər, ˌnɛb yʊ-/ (Show IPA). a king of Babylonia, 604?–561? b.c., and conqueror of Jerusalem. II Kings 24, 25.
- new netherland — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
- news headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day