11-letter words containing a, s, h, d
- gatecrashed — Simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash.
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- grade sheet — a piece of paper on which a student's grades are recorded
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
- haberdasher — a retail dealer in men's furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.
- hadrosaurid — (zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.
- haggardness — having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn: the haggard faces of the tired troops.
- hairdresser — a person who arranges or cuts hair.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
- 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 scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
- hand signal — indication made by hand
- hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- hand-stitch — to stitch or sew by hand.
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- handbaskets — Plural form of handbasket.
- handfasting — Present participle of handfast.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
- handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
- handshaking — a gripping and shaking of right hands by two individuals, as to symbolize greeting, congratulation, agreement, or farewell.
- handsprings — Plural form of handspring.
- 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 by sth — If one thing is hard by another, it is very close to it.
- hard cheese — an unpleasant, difficult, or adverse situation: It's hard cheese for the unskilled worker these days.
- hard porn's — hard-core pornography.
- 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.
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
- harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.
- hash coding — (programming, algorithm) (Or "hashing") A scheme for providing rapid access to data items which are distinguished by some key. Each data item to be stored is associated with a key, e.g. the name of a person. A hash function is applied to the item's key and the resulting hash value is used as an index to select one of a number of "hash buckets" in a hash table. The table contains pointers to the original items. If, when adding a new item, the hash table already has an entry at the indicated location then that entry's key must be compared with the given key to see if it is the same. If two items' keys hash to the same value (a "hash collision") then some alternative location is used (e.g. the next free location cyclically following the indicated one). For best performance, the table size and hash function must be tailored to the number of entries and range of keys to be used. The hash function usually depends on the table size so if the table needs to be enlarged it must usually be completely rebuilt. When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. See also: btree, checksum, CRC, pseudorandom number, random, random number, soundex.
- hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- hazardously — In a hazardous manner.
- 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.