11-letter words containing d, o, c, s, a, h
- harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.
- 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.
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
- hydrocorals — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
- hydrostatic — of or relating to hydrostatics.
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- matchboards — Plural form of matchboard.
- midas touch — the ability to turn any business venture one is associated with into an extremely profitable one.
- mustachioed — a mustache.
- nacogdoches — a city in N Texas.
- octahedrons — Plural form of octahedron.
- old scratch — the devil; Satan.
- orchardists — Plural form of orchardist.
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
- rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- saddlecloth — Horse Racing. a cloth placed over the saddle of a racehorse bearing the horse's number.
- sap orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- sapphic ode — Horatian ode.
- schizopodal — pertaining to a split-foot or appendage
- schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
- schoolwards — in the direction of school
- second hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game
- second-hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
- shade cloth — a covering made of cloth or plastic, especially one used to control the amount of sunlight to which plants are exposed.
- shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
- shockheaded — having a shock or thick mass of hair on the head.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- word search — puzzle: words hidden in grid