9-letter words containing d, a, h
- guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
- guildhall — (in Britain) the hall built or used by a guild or corporation for its assemblies; town hall.
- gypsyhead — a flanged drum on a winch, for winding in lines.
- haberdash — To deal in small wares.
- haberdine — a cod that has been dried and salted
- hacendado — the owner of a hacienda.
- haciendas — Plural form of hacienda.
- hack mode — (jargon) Engaged in hacking. A Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem that may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic). Ability to enter such concentration at will correlates strongly with wizardliness; it is one of the most important skills learned during larval stage. Sometimes amplified as "deep hack mode". Being yanked out of hack mode (see priority interrupt) may be experienced as a physical shock, and the sensation of being in hack mode is more than a little habituating. The intensity of this experience is probably by itself sufficient explanation for the existence of hackers, and explains why many resist being promoted out of positions where they can code. See also cyberspace. Some aspects of hackish etiquette will appear quite odd to an observer unaware of the high value placed on hack mode. For example, if someone appears at your door, it is perfectly okay to hold up a hand (without turning one's eyes away from the screen) to avoid being interrupted. One may read, type, and interact with the computer for quite some time before further acknowledging the other's presence (of course, he or she is reciprocally free to leave without a word). The understanding is that you might be in hack mode with a lot of delicate state in your head, and you dare not swap that context out until you have reached a good point to pause. See also juggling eggs.
- hacked up — (jargon, programming) Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
- hackitude — (jargon) An even sillier word for hackishness.
- hackneyed — let out, employed, or done for hire.
- hacksawed — Simple past tense and past participle of hacksaw.
- hadrian i — died a.d. 795, pope 772–795.
- hadrian v — died 1276, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1276.
- hadrosaur — a bipedal dinosaur of the genus Hadrosaurus, belonging to the ornithopod family Hadrosauridae of the late Cretaceous Period, having broad, flat jaws for scooping up water plants.
- haematoid — resembling blood
- haggadist — one of the writers of the Aggadah.
- haggardly — In a haggard manner.
- hagridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- hagriding — Present participle of hagride.
- hairbands — Plural form of hairband.
- hairdryer — (chiefly UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.
- hairslide — A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.
- haldimand — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- half deck — (in a sailing ship) the portion of the deck below the upper or spar deck and aft of the mainmast.
- half dime — a silver coin of the U.S., equal to five cents, issued 1794–1805 and 1829–73.
- half tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half-clad — partially dressed
- half-dead — no longer living; deprived of life: dead people; dead flowers; dead animals.
- half-deaf — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- half-deck — a deck on an old ship of war that is situated below the upper deck and extends aft from the mainmast
- half-done — past participle of do1 .
- half-tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half-used — previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car.
- halliards — Plural form of halliard.
- hallstand — A piece of furniture, near to an outside door, on which hats and coats are hung, and umbrellas are stored.
- hamadryad — Classical Mythology. a dryad who is the spirit of a particular tree.
- hamadryas — A large baboon, Papio hamadryas, from northern Africa and Arabia, that was sacred in ancient Egypt.
- hamfisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hammocked — Ensconced in a hammock.
- hampstead — a former borough of London, England, now part of Camden.
- hand back — return, give back
- hand bell — a small handheld bell, especially as part of a tuned set having different notes or pitches and played by a group.
- hand down — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand hack — (jargon) 1. (Or "hand cruft") To Translate a hot spot of a program in a HLL into assembly language by hand, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon. See tune, bum. 2. More generally, manual construction or patching of data sets that would normally be generated by a translation utility and interpreted by another program, and aren't really designed to be read or modified by humans.
- hand horn — a forerunner of the modern French horn, developed in Germany during the mid-17th century.
- hand lens — a magnifying glass designed to be held in the hand.
- hand over — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand tool — handheld instrument
- hand-feed — Agriculture. to feed (animals) with apportioned amounts at regular intervals. Compare self-feed.