14-letter words containing d, a, s, e, h
- farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
- fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
- fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- forehandedness — Quality of being forehanded.
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- freehandedness — The quality or state of being freehanded.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- freshness date — the last date, usually specified on the label or packaging, that a food, as bread, is considered fresh, although it may be sold, ordinarily at reduced prices, or eaten after that date.
- full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- go pear-shaped — If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
- grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
- granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
- graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
- great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
- haberdasheries — Plural form of haberdashery.
- hair's breadth — A hair's breadth is a very small degree or amount.
- hair's-breadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- ham-handedness — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand's-breadth — handbreadth
- handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
- hardhandedness — the condition of having hard or thickened skin on the hands due to manual work
- hardheadedness — The characteristic of being hardheaded.
- hardshell clam — quahog.
- hardware store — shop selling DIY or home-improvement supplies
- harewood house — a mansion near Harrogate in Yorkshire: built 1759–71 by John Carr for the Lascelles family; interior decoration by Robert Adam
- hauts-de-seine — a department in N France. 63 sq. mi. (163 sq. km). Capital: Nanterre.
- have hard ears — to be stubbornly disobedient
- head restraint — a rest or support of any kind for the head.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- headmastership — The role or position of headmaster.
- headmistresses — Plural form of headmistress.
- heads or tails — a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
- headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
- heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.