11-letter words containing h, a, d, e
- headscarves — Plural form of headscarf.
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- headstander — A small deep-bodied freshwater fish of the Amazon region, popular in aquaria. It swims and feeds at an oblique angle with the head down.
- headstreams — Plural form of headstream.
- headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
- headteacher — The most senior teacher in a school.
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- health card — an identity card required to obtain public health insurance services
- health food — any natural food popularly believed to promote or sustain good health, as by containing vital nutrients, being grown without the use of pesticides, or having a low sodium or fat content.
- hearing aid — a compact electronic amplifier worn to improve one's hearing, usually placed in or behind the ear.
- hearing dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- heartedness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being hearted.
- heartshaped — Alternative form of heart-shaped.
- 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.
- heathenized — Simple past tense and past participle of heathenize.
- heating pad — a flexible fabric-covered pad containing insulated electrical heating elements for applying heat especially to the body.
- heavenwards — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
- heavy-laden — carrying a heavy load; heavily laden: a heavy-laden cart.
- hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
- hedge apple — osage orange.
- hedgeapples — Plural form of hedgeapple.
- hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
- hell around — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- hem and haw — the utterance or sound of “hem.”.
- hemihydrate — a hydrate in which there are two molecules of the compound for each molecule of water.
- hemodynamic — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- hemorrhaged — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- henry fonda — Henry, 1905–82, U.S. actor.
- heparinized — Simple past tense and past participle of heparinize.
- heptahedron — a solid figure having seven faces.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- herald moth — a noctuid moth, Scoliopteryx libatrix, having brownish cryptically mottled forewings and plain dull hind wings. The adult hibernates and has a prolonged life
- herb garden — where herbs are grown
- hereditable — heritable.
- hexadactyly — Sexdactyly.
- 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.
- hexahedrons — Plural form of hexahedron.
- hexahydrate — a hydrate that contains six molecules of water, as magnesium chloride, MgCl 2 ⋅6H 2 O.
- hexahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing six hydroxyl groups.
- 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.
- hidden hand — an unknown force or influence believed to be the cause of certain, often unfortunate, events
- hierodeacon — a monk who is also a deacon.
- high-handed — condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary: He has a highhanded manner.