11-letter words containing d, i, s, h, e
- headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- 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.
- hemihedrism — (crystallography) hemihedral crystallization.
- hemorrhoids — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
- hemosiderin — a yellowish-brown protein containing iron, derived chiefly from hemoglobin and found in body tissue and phagocytes, especially as the result of disorders in iron metabolism and the breakdown of red blood cells.
- hemstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of hemstitch.
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- hesperidium — the fruit of a citrus plant, as an orange.
- hideousness — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- highbinders — Plural form of highbinder.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
- hinderlands — the buttocks
- hinderlings — the buttocks or bottom
- hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
- hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
- hippodromes — Plural form of hippodrome.
- his-and-her — denoting two matching or identical items, one intended for use by a male and the other by a female: his-and-her towels in the bathroom; his-and-her sweatshirts.
- historiated — (especially of initial letters on an illuminated manuscript) decorated with animals, flowers, or other designs that have a narrative or symbolic purpose.
- hithersides — on the nearer side
- hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- homogenised — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- horse rider — a person riding a horse
- horseradish — a cultivated plant, Armoracia rusticana, of the mustard family, having small, white flowers.
- horseriders — Plural form of horserider.
- hostile bid — A hostile takeover bid is one that is opposed by the company that is being bid for.
- hot-desking — the practice of not assigning permanent desks in a workplace, so that employees may work at any available desk
- howe, denis — Denis Howe
- humidifiers — Plural form of humidifier.
- hurriedness — The state of being hurried.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hypodermics — Plural form of hypodermic.
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- 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
- in the shed — at work
- indehiscent — not dehiscent; not opening at maturity.
- indochinese — of or relating to Indochina or its inhabitants.
- inexhausted — Not exhausted.
- intermeshed — Simple past tense and past participle of intermesh.
- irish tweed — a sturdy woolen fabric of light warp and dark filling, made in Ireland and used in suits and coats.
- isodiaphere — one of two or more nuclides in which the difference between the number of neutrons and the number of protons is the same
- kidney dish — medical: curved basin
- kindredship — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
- knightheads — Plural form of knighthead.
- laddishness — (British) Laddish attitudes and behaviour; laddism.