11-letter words containing d, i, s, n
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hand signal — indication made by hand
- hand-stitch — to stitch or sew by hand.
- handfasting — Present participle of handfast.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
- handshaking — a gripping and shaking of right hands by two individuals, as to symbolize greeting, congratulation, agreement, or farewell.
- handsprings — Plural form of handspring.
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- hash coding — (programming, algorithm) (Or "hashing") A scheme for providing rapid access to data items which are distinguished by some key. Each data item to be stored is associated with a key, e.g. the name of a person. A hash function is applied to the item's key and the resulting hash value is used as an index to select one of a number of "hash buckets" in a hash table. The table contains pointers to the original items. If, when adding a new item, the hash table already has an entry at the indicated location then that entry's key must be compared with the given key to see if it is the same. If two items' keys hash to the same value (a "hash collision") then some alternative location is used (e.g. the next free location cyclically following the indicated one). For best performance, the table size and hash function must be tailored to the number of entries and range of keys to be used. The hash function usually depends on the table size so if the table needs to be enlarged it must usually be completely rebuilt. When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. See also: btree, checksum, CRC, pseudorandom number, random, random number, soundex.
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- 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-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.
- 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.
- 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
- hindoostani — a standard language and lingua franca of northern India based on a dialect of Western Hindi spoken around Delhi. Abbreviation: Hind. Compare Hindi (def 2), Urdu.
- hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
- hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
- 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.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- holy island — Also called Lindisfarne. an island off the E coast of Northumberland, England. 3 miles (4.8 km) long.
- homogenised — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- 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
- hurriedness — The state of being hurried.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hydroponics — the cultivation of plants by placing the roots in liquid nutrient solutions rather than in soil; soilless growth of plants. Compare aeroculture, geoponics (def 2).
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- icosandrian — (of a plant) having at least twenty stamens
- icosandrous — belonging to the Icosandria, a class of plants
- identifiers — Plural form of identifier.
- idolisation — Alternative spelling of idolization.
- ifs and ans — things that might have happened, but which did not
- impassioned — filled with intense feeling or passion; passionate; ardent.
- impediments — A hindrance or obstruction in doing something.
- imponderous — (obsolete) imponderable.
- in distress — (of a ship, aircraft, etc) in dire need of help
- in the shed — at work
- in-stead of — as a substitute or replacement; in the place or stead of someone or something: We ordered tea but were served coffee instead.
- inadvisable — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- inadvisably — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- inadvisedly — In a manner that is not advisable.
- incandesces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incandesce.
- incidentals — happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else.