14-letter words containing d, a, h, l
- moosehead lake — a lake in central Maine. 42 miles (68 km) long; 300 sq. mi. (780 sq. km).
- much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
- muddleheadedly — In a muddleheaded manner.
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- neanderthaloid — resembling or characteristic of the physical type of Neanderthal man.
- new netherland — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
- news headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day
- nonestablished — without the official support of the government
- nonhalogenated — not containing halogen
- northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
- notched collar — a collar forming a notch with the lapels of a garment at the seam where collar and lapels join.
- orchard oriole — a North American oriole, Icterus spurius, the male of which is chestnut and black.
- outlandishness — The quality of being outlandish.
- overhead light — a light which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
- overhead valve — a valve in a type of internal-combustion engine in which the inlet and exhaust valves are in the cylinder head above the pistons
- paddle-wheeler — a steamboat propelled by a paddle wheel
- pendulum watch — (formerly) a watch having a balance wheel, especially a balance wheel bearing a fake pendulum bob oscillating behind a window in the dial.
- pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
- philanthropoid — an individual who does work for a charitable body
- photoduplicate — photocopy.
- pitched battle — a battle in which the orderly arrangement of armed forces and the location have been predetermined.
- play the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
- podophthalmous — relating to a crustacean
- polysaccharide — a carbohydrate, as starch, inulin, or cellulose, containing more than three monosaccharide units per molecule, the units being attached to each other in the manner of acetals, and therefore capable of hydrolysis by acids or enzymes to monosaccharides.
- preestablished — to establish beforehand.
- propeller head — Slang. a person who is obsessively devoted to an especially technical pursuit.
- pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
- public holiday — national day off work
- radiographical — the production of radiographs.
- radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
- radiotelephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
- residence hall — Residence halls are buildings with rooms or apartments, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the school year.
- rhode islander — a person born or living in Rhode Island
- ride the rails — Someone who rides the rails travels by train, especially over a long period of time and without buying a ticket.
- right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- rob the cradle — a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
- saddle leather — hide, as from a cow or bull, that undergoes vegetable tanning and is used for saddlery.
- sailing dinghy — a small boat or dinghy with a single mast, used esp for recreational sailing
- sandhill crane — a North American crane, Grus canadensis, having bluish-gray plumage and a red forehead.
- sandwich glass — any of various forms of glassware manufactured at Sandwich, Mass., from 1825 to c1890.
- sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
- satellite dish — dish (def 8).
- scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
- scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
- self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
- shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
- sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
- sheffield lake — a town in N Ohio.