11-letter words containing d, i, e, l
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-filled — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- haloperidol — a major antipsychotic agent, C 21 H 23 ClFNO 2 , used in the management of schizophrenia, severe anxiety, and other behavioral disorders.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
- hang glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hang-glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- heat island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
- heat shield — a coating or structure that surrounds part of the nose cone or other vulnerable surfaces of a spacecraft and, by heat absorption or ablation, protects them from excessive heating during reentry.
- heat-island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
- hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
- helminthoid — shaped like a helminth; vermiform; wormlike.
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- hereditable — heritable.
- heteroploid — (biology) Having a chromosome number that is neither the haploid nor the diploid number normal in the species.
- hexadecimal — Also, hex. of or relating to a numbering system that uses 16 as the radix, employing the numerals 0 through 9 and representing digits greater than 9 with the letters A through F.
- hexidecimal — (spelling) Mis-spelling of "hexadecimal".
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- high-heeled — High-heeled shoes are women's shoes that have high heels.
- highblooded — of high blood, family, or race
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- highlighted — to emphasize or make prominent.
- hinderingly — in a hindering manner, so as to hinder or obstruct
- hinderlands — the buttocks
- hinderlings — the buttocks or bottom
- hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
- hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
- hiv-related — related to the HIV virus
- hodgenville — a town in central Kentucky: birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.
- hohenlinden — a village in S Germany, in Bavaria, near Munich: French victory over the Austrians 1800.
- hold in fee — to own; possess
- holding-pen — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
- holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- homologized — Simple past tense and past participle of homologize.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- hostile bid — A hostile takeover bid is one that is opposed by the company that is being bid for.
- hull girder — the theoretical box girder formed by the continuous longitudinal members of the hull of a ship, providing resistance to hogging and sagging.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hydralazine — a white crystalline powder, C 8 H 8 N 4 , that dilates blood vessels and is used in the treatment of hypertension.
- hyperboloid — a quadric surface having a finite center and some of its plane sections hyperbolas. Equation: x 2 / a 2 + y 2 / b 2 − z 2 / c 2 = 1.
- hyperlinked — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperlink.
- hyperlydian — relating to the highest scale or mode in ancient Greek music
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.