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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.
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