10-letter words containing d, a, c, h
- 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 court — a tennis court having a concrete or asphalt surface.
- hard crash — (programming) When a program stops running completely and unexpectedly, often due to external events, e.g. the CPU overheating or an unrecoverable memory error. See also disk crash.
- hard peach — a clingstone peach.
- hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
- 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-faced — cheeky
- hard-knock — beset with hardship.
- hardbacked — (of a book) Having a solid binding; hardback.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- hatchelled — Simple past tense and past participle of hatchel.
- head clerk — a supervisor; manager
- head count — an inventory of people in a group taken by counting individuals.
- head voice — the high register of the human voice, in which the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head
- headcheese — a seasoned loaf made of the head meat, sometimes including the tongue or brains, of a calf or pig and molded in the natural aspic of the head.
- headcollar — A bitless headpiece for leading or tying up a horse.
- headpieces — Plural form of headpiece.
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
- helicoidal — coiled or curving like a spiral.
- hendecagon — a polygon having 11 angles and 11 sides.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- heptapodic — having seven metrical feet
- heraclidae — a drama (429? b.c.) by Euripides.
- herbicidal — Of, or relating to herbicides.
- hexachords — Plural form of hexachord.
- hexahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) hexahydroxy.
- hinderance — Archaic spelling of hindrance.
- hindrances — Plural form of hindrance.
- hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.
- honor card — honor (def 11).
- humic acid — a brown, melanin-tinted mixture of polymers, found in lignite, peat, and soils, where it acts as a cation exchange agent: used in drilling fluids and inks.
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- hybrid car — vehicle with combined power source
- hydra code — (humour, programming) Code that cannot be fixed because each time a bug is remove, two new bugs grow in its place. Named after the many-headed Hydra of Greek mythology.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydrically — in a hydric manner; in a manner using water or moisture
- hydrocoral — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
- hydrocrack — to crack (petroleum or the like) in the presence of hydrogen.
- hydromancy — divination by means of the motions or appearance of water.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- idiopathic — of unknown cause, as a disease.
- juiceheads — Plural form of juicehead.
- kodachrome — (lowercase) a positive color transparency.
- kurdaitcha — (Australia) An aboriginal evil spirit; a sorcerer.
- land yacht — a wind-driven vehicle with a mast and sails, having three wheels, a single seat, and a steering wheel, used especially on beaches and other sandy areas.
- last-ditch — done finally in desperation to avoid defeat, failure, disaster, etc.: a last-ditch attempt to avert war.
- launch pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- leichhardt — Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈluːtvɪç). 1813–48, Australian explorer, born in Prussia. He disappeared during an attempt to cross Australia from East to West