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12-letter words containing d, c, h

  • forked chain — branched chain.
  • foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
  • french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
  • french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
  • french doors — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
  • french drain — a drainage trench filled to ground level with fragments of brick, rock, etc.
  • french india — the five small former French territories in India, including Chandernagor, Karikal, Pondicherry, and Yanaon on the E coast, and Mahé on the W coast.
  • french sudan — former name of Mali.
  • golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
  • grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
  • ground cloth — groundsheet.
  • grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
  • hadley chest — a style of chest made c1700 in Massachusetts or Connecticut, having front rails and panels carved in low relief with elaborate tulip and leaf patterns.
  • haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
  • halcyon days — period regarded with nostalgia
  • half cadence — a cadence ending with dominant harmony.
  • half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
  • hamming code — (algorithm)   Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
  • hand-picking — to pick by hand.
  • handclapping — The activity of clapping hands, especially as part of a musical performance.
  • handcrafting — Present participle of handcraft.
  • handcraftman — handicraftsman.
  • handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
  • handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
  • handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
  • handicapping — Present participle of handicap.
  • handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
  • handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
  • handstitched — Stitched by hand.
  • hard science — any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and experiments.
  • hard-surface — to make the surface of (something) hard or firm, as by compacting or paving it: to hard-surface a parking area.
  • hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
  • harmonichord — a musical instrument resembling an upright piano intended to fuse the sound of a violin with the functionality of a piano, the tone therefore produced using friction rather than through striking
  • harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
  • head balance — headstand.
  • head lettuce — any variety of the lettuce subspecies Lactuca sativa capitata, having leaves that grow in a dense rosette, especially iceberg lettuce and Boston lettuce.
  • head teacher — A head teacher is a teacher who is in charge of a school.
  • headkerchief — A kerchief worn on the head.
  • hedge garlic — an erect, cruciferous herb, Sisymbrium officinale, having a garlicky odor.
  • hedge-school — a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
  • helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
  • hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
  • hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
  • henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
  • hendecagonal — (geometry) Having eleven sides an angles; similar to a hendecagon.
  • heraldically — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
  • herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
  • heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.
  • heterodactyl — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
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