14-letter words containing d, i, a, n, t, h
- disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- dithionic acid — a strong, unstable acid, H 2 S 2 O 6 , known only in solution and in the form of its salts.
- dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
- down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
- draconic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
- dread to think — If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- dutch colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
- edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
- encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
- endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- exhereditation — A disinheriting; disherison.
- farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
- grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
- 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-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- handicraftsman — a person skilled in a handicraft; craftsman.
- haplodiplontic — (biology, of a life cycle) Having multicellular diploid and haploid stages.
- hastings banda — Hastings Kamuzu [kah-moo-zoo] /kɑˈmu zu/ (Show IPA), 1906–97, Malawi physician, political leader, and public official: 1st president of Malawi 1966–94.
- hauts-de-seine — a department in N France. 63 sq. mi. (163 sq. km). Capital: Nanterre.
- have a mind to — think about doing
- head restraint — a rest or support of any kind for the head.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- height of land — a watershed
- hereditariness — (rare) The property of being hereditary.
- herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.
- highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
- hither and yon — Hither and thither means in many different directions or places, and in a disorganized way. In American English, the expression hither and yon is sometimes used.
- humane studies — educational subjects or courses, or texts, that are, or were historically, considered to have a civilizing influence on those who read or studied them
- humidification — to make humid.
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
- hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.