9-letter words containing d, h, a, l
- handclasp — a gripping of hands by two or more people, as in greeting, parting, making a commitment, or expressing affection.
- handhelds — Plural form of handheld.
- handholds — Plural form of handhold.
- handlebar — Usually, handlebars. the curved steering bar of a bicycle, motorcycle, etc., placed in front of the rider and gripped by the hands. handlebar moustache.
- handlooms — Plural form of handloom.
- handplant — (skateboarding) A move in which the skater balances on his hand after skating up to the top of a halfpipe.
- handrails — Plural form of handrail.
- handseled — Simple past tense and past participle of handsel.
- handtowel — a small piece of thick soft cloth used to dry the hands
- handwheel — a wheel, as a valve wheel, turned by hand.
- hard clam — a quahog.
- hard coal — anthracite.
- hard left — You use hard left to describe those members of a left wing political group or party who have the most extreme political beliefs.
- hard lens — a contact lens of rigid plastic or silicon, exerting light pressure on the cornea of the eye, used for correcting various vision problems including astigmatism.
- hard link — (file system) One of several directory entries which refer to the same Unix file. A hard link is created with the "ln" (link) command: ln
where and are pathnames within the same file system. Hard links to the same file are indistinguishable from each other except that they have different pathnames. They all refer to the same inode and the inode contains all the information about a file. The standard ln command does not usually allow you to create a hard link to a directory, chiefly because the standard rm and rmdir commands do not allow you to delete such a link. Some systems provide link and unlink commands which give direct access to the system calls of the same name, for which no such restrictions apply. Normally all hard links to a file must be in the same file system because a directory entry just relates a pathname to an inode within the same file system. The only exception is a mount point. The restrictions on hard links to directories and between file systems are very common but are not mandated by POSIX. Symbolic links are often used instead of hard links because they do not suffer from these restrictions. The space associated with a file is not freed until all the hard links to the file are deleted. This explains why the system call to delete a file is called "unlink". - hard loan — a foreign loan which is to be paid back in an agreed currency which has stability and economic strength
- hard luck — If you say that someone had some hard luck, or that a situation was hard luck on them, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
- hard sell — aggressive sales
- hard-bill — a seed-eating bird.
- hard-boil — to boil (an egg) until the yolk and white have become firm or solid.
- hard-laid — describing a rope the lay of which is at a relatively great angle to its axis; short-laid.
- hard-line — adhering rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan; uncompromising or unyielding: hard-line union demands.
- hard-sell — characterized by or promoted through a hard sell: hard-sell tactics.
- hardliner — Alternative spelling of hard-liner.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- harigalds — the intestines of an animal
- harold ii — 1022?–66, king of England 1066: defeated by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings (son of Earl Godwin).
- hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
- hastilude — A medieval martial game.
- hatcheled — Simple past tense and past participle of hatchel.
- havildars — Plural form of havildar.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.
- hazelwood — a town in E Missouri.
- head cold — a form of the common cold characterized especially by nasal congestion and sneezing.
- head girl — The head girl of a school is the girl who is the leader of the prefects and who often represents the school on public occasions.
- head lice — lice which lay eggs in human hair
- head wall — a cliff or steep slope rising at one end of a glaciated valley.
- head-load — baggage or goods arranged so as to be carried on the heads of African porters
- headcloth — any cloth for covering the head, as a turban or wimple.
- headlamps — Plural form of headlamp.
- headlands — Plural form of headland.
- headlease — the main lease between a tenant and a landlord
- headlight — a light or lamp, usually equipped with a reflector, on the front of an automobile, locomotive, etc.
- headlined — Simple past tense and past participle of headline.
- headliner — a performer whose name appears most prominently in a program or advertisement or on a marquee; star.
- headlines — Plural form of headline.
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- headrails — Plural form of headrail.
- headsails — Plural form of headsail.
- headstall — that part of a bridle or halter that encompasses the head of an animal.