16-letter words containing h, a, d, i, n
- ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
- exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
- exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
- faintheartedness — The quality or state of being fainthearted.
- fantail goldfish — an artificially bred, hardy variety of goldfish, usually oval-shaped and deep orange or calico, with a deeply cleft, four-lobed tail held in line with the body.
- farquhar islands — an island group in the Indian Ocean: administratively part of the Seychelles
- fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
- fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
- federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
- find favour with — to be approved of by someone
- fisherman's bend — a knot made by taking a round turn on the object to which the rope is to be fastened, passing the end of the rope around the standing part and under the round turn, and securing the end.
- fishskin disease — ichthyosis
- flight attendant — an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
- flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
- floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
- fool around with — have casual sex
- for the duration — If you say that something will happen for the duration, you mean that it will happen for as long as a particular situation continues.
- forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
- forward chaining — A data-driven technique used in constructing goals or reaching inferences derived from a set of facts. Forward chaining is the basis of production systems. Oppose backward chaining.
- forward-thinking — planning or tending to plan for the future; forward-looking.
- french indochina — an area in SE Asia, formerly a French colonial federation including Cochin-China, the protectorates of Annam, Cambodia, Tonkin, and Laos, and the leased territory of Kwangchowan: now comprising the three independent states of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Capital: Hanoi.
- ft share indexes — any of a number of share indexes published by the Financial Times to reflect various aspects of stock exchange prices
- gender dysphoria — a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth.
- glendale heights — a city in NE Illinois.
- graphic designer — person: commercial artist
- great-grandchild — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
- greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
- gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- gynandromorphism — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
- hacienda heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- haemodynamically — from a hemodynamic point of view
- hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
- hair conditioner — a substance used, often after shampooing, to detangle and improve the condition of the hair. Like shampoo, it is applied to wet hair and then rinsed out after applying.
- half-blind joint — a corner dovetail joint visible on one face only.
- hamming distance — (data) The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
- hamming, richard — Richard Hamming
- handling charges — a fee paid to cover the packaging, transport, etc, of a commodity
- hang around with — to associate or socialize with
- hanging wardrobe — a wardrobe containing a rail with a large amount of space underneath, so that clothes can be hung on hangers placed onto the rail
- hansen's disease — leprosy.
- hard rock mining — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
- hard times token — any of a series of U.S. copper tokens, issued 1834–41, bearing a political inscription or advertising message and serving as currency during coin shortages.
- have in the wind — to be in the act of following (quarry) by scent
- hawaiian gardens — a town in SW California.
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
- hearing-impaired — having reduced or deficient hearing ability; hard-of-hearing: special programs for hearing-impaired persons.
- hearsay evidence — testimony based on what a witness has heard from another person rather than on direct personal knowledge or experience.
- hen-and-chickens — any of several succulent plants that grow in clusters or colonies formed by runners or offshoots, as those of the genera Echeveria and Sempervivum.
- heroin addiction — addiction to the drug heroin