10-letter words containing d, e, c, a, h
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- hand cream — a cream that you put on your hands to make them feel softer and smoother
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hand-piece — handheld, power-operated shears used by a shearer
- handcuffed — Simple past tense and past participle of handcuff.
- handpicked — Picked by hand; picked or selected with care.
- handpieces — Plural form of handpiece.
- 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 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
- hardbacked — (of a book) Having a solid binding; hardback.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- 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.
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- 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.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- juiceheads — Plural form of juicehead.
- kodachrome — (lowercase) a positive color transparency.
- 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
- lightfaced — Written, printed or drawn in lightface using a font that has a low ration of ink to white space. The opposite of boldfaced.
- machinated — Simple past tense and past participle of machinate.
- mechanised — to make mechanical.
- mechanized — to make mechanical.
- melchiades — Saint, died a.d. 314, pope 310–314.
- methodical — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- midchannel — (geography) In the middle of a channel.
- mischarged — Simple past tense and past participle of mischarge.
- mismatched — Simple past tense and past participle of mismatch.
- moustached — Having moustache.