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13-letter words containing h, a, d

  • squash ladder — a list showing the relative order of merit of a set of squash players determined by the winning player in each match taking the higher of the two players' positions
  • staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
  • stand up with — to act as a wedding attendant to
  • standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
  • steady-handed — having steady hands; having self-control; calm.
  • stone-hearted — stony-hearted.
  • stony-hearted — hardhearted.
  • stout-hearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
  • straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • such and such — definite or particular, but not named or specified: They turned out to be such and such kind of people.
  • sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
  • surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
  • synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • table--d-hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
  • take sth hard — If you take something hard, you are very upset or depressed by it.
  • take the road — to begin a journey or tour
  • tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
  • team handball — a game, similar to soccer, played between two teams of seven players who catch, dribble, throw, or hit the ball with the hands.
  • tenderhearted — soft-hearted; sympathetic.
  • tetartohedral — (of a crystal) having one fourth the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • the adversary — Satan
  • the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
  • the east side — the east side of Manhattan Island in New York City
  • the ediacaran — the Ediacaran period or rock system
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • the headlines — the main points of a television or radio news broadcast, read out before the full broadcast and summarized at the end
  • the high road — the principal road from one place to another
  • the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
  • the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
  • the last word — final retort
  • the naked eye — If you say that something cannot be seen by the naked eye, you mean that it cannot be seen without the help of equipment such as a telescope or microscope.
  • the other day — several days ago
  • the palisades — line of steep cliffs in NE N.J. & SE N.Y. on the west shore of the Hudson: c. 15 mi (24 km) long
  • the real deal — a person or thing seen as being authentic and not inferior in any way
  • the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
  • the small ads — the small ads in a newspaper are short advertisements in which you can advertise something such as an object for sale or a room to let
  • the third age — old age, esp when viewed as an opportunity for travel, further education, etc
  • the whip hand — If you have the whip hand, you have power over someone else in a particular situation.
  • the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
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