12-letter words containing h, a, d, e
- lead a chase — to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
- lead the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- leather-hard — (of ceramic clay) moist but not sufficiently so to be plastic.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- leave behind — fail to bring
- leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
- level-headed — having common sense and sound judgment; sensible.
- liddell hart — (Sir) Basil Henry, 1895–1970, English military historian and strategist.
- light-haired — having light-coloured hair
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- lion-hearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- lisle thread — a fine, high-twisted and hard-twisted cotton thread, at least two-ply, used for hosiery, gloves, etc.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- loggerheaded — Dull; stupid.
- long-handles — long underwear.
- love handles — fat midriff
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
- machicolated — Having machicolations.
- machine code — (language) The representation of a computer program that is read and interpreted by the computer hardware (rather than by some other machine code program). A program in machine code consists of a sequence of "instructions" (possibly interspersed with data). An instruction is a binary string, (often written as one or more octal, decimal or hexadecimal numbers). Instructions may be all the same size (e.g. one 32-bit word for many modern RISC microprocessors) or of different sizes, in which case the size of the instruction is determined from the first word (e.g. Motorola 68000) or byte (e.g. Inmos transputer). The collection of all possible instructions for a particular computer is known as its "instruction set". Each instruction typically causes the Central Processing Unit to perform some fairly simple operation like loading a value from memory into a register or adding the numbers in two registers. An instruction consists of an op code and zero or more operands. Different processors have different instruction sets - the collection of possible operations they can perform. Execution of machine code may either be hard-wired into the central processing unit or it may be controlled by microcode. The basic execution cycle consists of fetching the next instruction from main memory, decoding it (determining which action the operation code specifies and the location of any arguments) and executing it by opening various gates (e.g. to allow data to flow from main memory into a CPU register) and enabling functional units (e.g. signalling to the ALU to perform an addition). Humans almost never write programs directly in machine code. Instead, they use programming languages. The simplest kind of programming language is assembly language which usually has a one-to-one correspondence with the resulting machine code instructions but allows the use of mnemonics (ASCII strings) for the "op codes" (the part of the instruction which encodes the basic type of operation to perform) and names for locations in the program (branch labels) and for variables and constants. Other languages are either translated by a compiler into machine code or executed by an interpreter
- machine head — a metal peg-and-gear mechanism for tuning a string on an instrument such as a guitar
- machine word — word (def 10).
- machine-made — made or constructed by machine
- machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- make headway — forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
- make the bed — rearrange the bedsheets
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- mathematized — Simple past tense and past participle of mathematize.
- medal-holder — a person who has won a medal
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- medicine hat — a city in SE Alberta, in SW Canada.
- merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandized — Simple past tense and past participle of merchandize.
- merchandizer — Alternative spelling of merchandiser.
- metathesized — Simple past tense and past participle of metathesize.
- method actor — actor who follows the Method
- methodically — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- mithridatize — to induce a state of mithridatism in (a person).
- mohammed ali — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).