14-letter words containing d, i, c, o
- harpsichordist — One who plays the harpsichord.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- helicopter dad — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
- helicopter pad — landing area
- hepatectomised — Alt form hepatectomized.
- hepatectomized — That has undergone hepatectomy.
- hermaphroditic — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
- high-card pool — red dog.
- hollerith code — a system for coding data into punched cards, in which each horizontal row is assigned a different value, and letters, numbers, or special characters are encoded as combinations of these values in a vertical column.
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- humidification — to make humid.
- hydrazoic acid — a colorless, very explosive, poisonous liquid, HN 3 , having a penetrating odor and irritating to the eyes and mucous membranes.
- hydriodic acid — a colorless corrosive liquid, HI, an aqueous solution of hydrogen iodide.
- hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
- hydrocephaloid — resembling hydrocephalus.
- hydrochlorides — Plural form of hydrochloride.
- hydrocolloidal — of or relating to a hydrocolloid
- hydrocortisone — Biochemistry. a steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , of the adrenal cortex, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
- hydrodynamical — Hydrodynamic.
- hydrographical — Hydrographic.
- hydrologically — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- hydrolytically — By means of hydrolysis.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
- hydronephrotic — of, relating to, or affected by hydronephrosis
- hydropathicity — (chemistry) The relative hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity of a compound, especially of an amino acid residue in a protein.
- hydrophilicity — (uncountable) The condition of being hydrophilic.
- hydrophobicity — (chemistry, uncountable) The condition of being hydrophobic.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hydroponically — Using hydroponics.
- hydroscopicity — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
- hydrosulphuric — Alternative spelling of hydrosulfuric.
- hydroxybenzoic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to hydroxybenzoic acid or its derivatives.
- hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
- hypereutectoid — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
- hypochondriacs — Plural form of hypochondriac.
- hypodermically — By hypodermic means.
- ice-cream soda — An ice-cream soda is a dessert made from ice cream, fruit-flavoured syrup, and soda water. It is usually served in a tall glass.
- identification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
- idiopathically — In an idiopathic sense or manner.
- idiosyncracies — Plural form of idiosyncracy.
- idiosyncrasies — a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.
- ill-considered — lacking thorough consideration; ill-suited; unwise.
- immethodically — Unmethodically.
- in defiance of — a daring or bold resistance to authority or to any opposing force.
- inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
- incommodiously — In an incommodious manner.
- inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
- inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.