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11-letter words containing d, h, i

  • hypoacidity — acidity in a lesser degree than is usual or normal, as of the gastric juice.
  • hypocycloid — a curve generated by the motion of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls internally, without slipping, on a given circle.
  • hypodermics — Plural form of hypodermic.
  • hypodiploid — having fewer chromosomes than the diploid number
  • hypodynamia — diminished strength; adynamia.
  • hypodynamic — diminished strength; adynamia.
  • hypoid gear — a gear resembling a bevel gear in form but designed to mesh with a similar gear in such a way that their axes would not intersect, one axis crossing over the other at approximately a right angle.
  • hypospadias — (medicine) A birth defect of the male urethra that involves an abnormally placed urinary meatus.
  • hypothyroid — deficient activity of the thyroid gland.
  • ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
  • ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
  • ichthyoidal — Like a fish; ichthyoid.
  • ichthyopsid — relating to the class Ichthyopsida, which contains amphibians, fishes, and fish-like vertebrates
  • icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
  • icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
  • idaho falls — a city in E Idaho.
  • ideographic — an ideogram.
  • idiographic — pertaining to or involving the study or explication of individual cases or events (opposed to nomothetic).
  • idiomorphic — Also, euhedral. (in a rock) noting or pertaining to a mineral constituent having its own characteristic outward crystalline form unaltered by the other constituents of the rock; automorphic.
  • idiot light — a light on an instrument panel or dashboard that reminds or warns the operator or driver of something
  • idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
  • ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
  • in bed with — in collusion with
  • in the cold — outside, exposed to cold weather
  • in the dark — having very little or no light: a dark room.
  • in the dock — the place in a courtroom where a prisoner is placed during trial.
  • in the mind — mentally
  • in the mood — keen, feeling like doing sth
  • in the nude — naked
  • in the shed — at work
  • in the wild — Animals that live in the wild live in a free and natural state and are not looked after by people.
  • in the wind — air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface: A gentle wind blew through the valley. High winds were forecast.
  • indehiscent — not dehiscent; not opening at maturity.
  • india wheat — a buckwheat, Fagopyrum tataricum, of India, having loose clusters of greenish or yellowish flowers, grown for soil improvement.
  • indian hemp — a North American dogbane, Apocynum cannabinum, having erect clusters of greenish-white flowers and a root with laxative and emetic properties.
  • indochinese — of or relating to Indochina or its inhabitants.
  • inexhausted — Not exhausted.
  • infant-hood — a child during the earliest period of its life, especially before he or she can walk; baby.
  • infield hit — a base hit that does not reach the outfield.
  • inner child — Some psychologists refer to a person's childish feelings as his or her inner child.
  • intermeshed — Simple past tense and past participle of intermesh.
  • invalidhood — the state or condition of being an invalid
  • irish tweed — a sturdy woolen fabric of light warp and dark filling, made in Ireland and used in suits and coats.
  • ironhearted — hardhearted or callous
  • ischidrosis — Anhidrosis.
  • isodiaphere — one of two or more nuclides in which the difference between the number of neutrons and the number of protons is the same
  • judeophobia — Alternative case form of Judeophobia.
  • khalkidhiki — Greek name of Chalcidice.
  • kid brother — younger male sibling
  • kidney dish — medical: curved basin
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