11-letter words containing a, s, h, d, e
- half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbaskets — Plural form of handbasket.
- handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
- handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard cheese — an unpleasant, difficult, or adverse situation: It's hard cheese for the unskilled worker these days.
- hard sector — (storage) An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- hardpressed — Subject to difficulty in accomplishing or making progress.
- hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- head-strict — (theory) A head-strict function will not necessarily evaluate every cons cell of its (list) argument, but whenever it does evaluate a cons cell it will also evaluate the element in the head of that cell. An example of a head-strict function is beforeZero :: [Int] -> [Int] beforeZero [] = [] beforeZero (0:xs) = [] beforeZero (x:xs) = x : beforeZero xs which returns a list up to the first zero. This pattern of evaluation is important because it is common in functions which operate on a list of inputs. See also tail-strict, hyperstrict.
- headbangers — Plural form of headbanger.
- headcheeses — Plural form of headcheese.
- headdresses — Plural form of headdress.
- headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
- headmasters — Plural form of headmaster.
- headscarves — Plural form of headscarf.
- 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.
- headstreams — Plural form of headstream.
- headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- heartedness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being hearted.
- heartshaped — Alternative form of heart-shaped.
- 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 shield — a coating or structure that surrounds part of the nose cone or other vulnerable surfaces of a spacecraft and, by heat absorption or ablation, protects them from excessive heating during reentry.
- 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.
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- hedgeapples — Plural form of hedgeapple.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- hexahedrons — Plural form of hexahedron.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
- hinderlands — the buttocks
- hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
- his-and-her — denoting two matching or identical items, one intended for use by a male and the other by a female: his-and-her towels in the bathroom; his-and-her sweatshirts.
- historiated — (especially of initial letters on an illuminated manuscript) decorated with animals, flowers, or other designs that have a narrative or symbolic purpose.
- hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- homesteaded — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- homesteader — the owner or holder of a homestead.
- hooded seal — a large seal, Cystophora cristata, the male of which has a large, distensible, hoodlike sac on the head.
- horn-spread — (of a horned creature) the distance between the outermost tips of the horns.