10-letter words containing a, r, d, e
- guardhouse — a building used for housing military personnel on guard duty.
- guardiance — (obsolete) guardianship.
- guide rail — a track or rail designed to control the movement of an object, as a door or window.
- guideboard — a large board or sign, usually mounted on a post, giving directions to travelers.
- had better — that which has greater excellence or is preferable or wiser: the better of two choices.
- had rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.
- had sooner — would rather; would prefer to
- hag-ridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- hair slide — a hinged clip with a tortoiseshell, bone, or similar back, used to fasten the hair
- halberdier — a soldier, guard, or attendant armed with a halberd.
- half-arsed — incompetent; inept; badly organized
- half-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to the offspring of parents of different racial origin, especially the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European descent.
- hallmarked — Simple past tense and past participle of hallmark.
- hammerhead — the part of a hammer designed for striking.
- hand brake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- hand cream — a cream that you put on your hands to make them feel softer and smoother
- hand mower — a lawn mower that is pushed by hand (distinguished from power mower).
- hand press — a printing press requiring hand operation.
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hand-drier — an electrical appliance, usually found in public toilets, that dries a person's hands through the expulsion of hot air
- handballer — A handball player.
- handbrakes — Plural form of handbrake.
- handlanger — an unskilled assistant to a tradesman
- handlebars — Usually, handlebars. the curved steering bar of a bicycle, motorcycle, etc., placed in front of the rider and gripped by the hands. handlebar moustache.
- hands-free — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- handshaker — a person who is or is required to be overtly or ostentatiously friendly: Politicians are often incurable handshakers.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- handwarmer — a small, flat, usually pocket-size device containing material, as chemicals, hot liquids, or a battery-operated heating element, for warming the hands.
- hansardize — to prove that (a member of parliament) has changed his views from those quoted in Hansard
- harassedly — in a harassed manner
- harborside — bordering a harbor.
- hard cider — the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- hard drive — hard disk drive
- hard lines — bad luck
- hard maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- hard money — (in the US) money given directly to a candidate in an election to assist his or her campaign
- hard paste — true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
- hard peach — a clingstone peach.
- hard power — the ability to achieve one's goals by force, esp military force
- hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
- hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hard water — water that contains magnesium, calcium, or iron salts and therefore forms a soap lather with difficulty.
- hard wheat — a wheat, as durum wheat, characterized by flinty, dark-colored kernels that yield a flour used in making bread, macaroni, etc.
- hard-assed — tough and uncompromising
- hard-asset — denoting an asset with intrinsic value: diamonds and other hard-asset commodities.
- hard-coded — (jargon) (By analogy with "hard-wired") Said of a data value or behaviour written directly into a program, possibly in multiple places, where it cannot be easily modified. There are several alternatives, depending on how often the value is likely to change. It may be replaced with a compile-time constant, such as a C "#define" macro, in which case a change will still require recompilation; or it may be read at run time from a profile, resource (see de-rezz), or environment variable that a user can easily modify; or it may be read as part of the program's input data. To change something hard-coded requires recompilation (if using a compiled language of course) but, more seriously, it requires sufficient understanding of the implementation to be sure that the change will not introduce inconsistency and cause the program to fail. For example, "The line terminator is hard-coded as newline; who in their right mind would use anything else?" See magic number.
- hard-edged — realistic and uncompromising: a hard-edged documentary.
- hard-faced — cheeky
- hard-liner — a person who adheres rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan.
- hard-nosed — hardheaded or tough; unsentimentally practical: a hard-nosed labor leader.