14-letter words containing d, i, t, e
- head restraint — a rest or support of any kind for the head.
- headmastership — The role or position of headmaster.
- headmistresses — Plural form of headmistress.
- heads or tails — a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
- 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
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- height of land — a watershed
- 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.
- herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
- hereditability — heritable.
- hereditariness — (rare) The property of being hereditary.
- hermaphrodites — Plural form of hermaphrodite.
- hermaphroditic — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
- hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
- hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
- 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.
- hold the field — to maintain one's position in the face of opposition
- holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
- 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.
- hotel de ville — a city hall.
- 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
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- hydrocortisone — Biochemistry. a steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , of the adrenal cortex, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydronephrotic — of, relating to, or affected by hydronephrosis
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hydroxyapatite — a mineral, Ca 10 (PO 4) 6 OH 2 , that is the principal storage form of calcium and phosphorus in bone.
- hypereutectoid — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
- hyperextending — Present participle of hyperextend.
- hypermodernist — a person who adheres to hypermodernism
- hyperpigmented — Afflicted with hyperpigmentation.
- 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.
- idealistically — of or relating to idealism or idealists.
- identical twin — one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.
- identification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
- identity theft — crime: pretending to be sb else
- idle character — a transmitted control character that holds a position but does not appear in the output at the receiver.
- idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
- Île de la cité — a natural island in the river Seine, in the centre of the city of Paris, France, the Île de la Cité is the location where the medieval city was refounded
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something