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13-letter words containing h, a, d

  • finnan haddie — smoked haddock.
  • fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • flash-forward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
  • flashed glass — clear glass flashed with a thin layer of colored glass or a coating of metallic oxide.
  • flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
  • flog to death — to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it
  • folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • forward slash — a short oblique stroke (/), or slash, especially one used in computer programming or to specify an Internet address or computer filename.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • freedom march — an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.
  • french canada — the areas of Canada, esp in the province of Quebec, where French Canadians predominate
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • gaidhealtachd — the area of Scotland in which Scottish Gaelic is the vernacular speech
  • garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
  • garden shears — shears used for gardening
  • gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
  • giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
  • ginger-haired — having ginger hair
  • gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
  • gnathic index — Craniometry. the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter.
  • go to the bad — to become wicked, shiftless, etc.; degenerate
  • goldtail moth — European moth with white wings and a soft white furry body with a yellow tail tuft
  • gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
  • gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
  • good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
  • goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
  • graham island — an island in the Pacific Ocean, in W British Columbia, Canada: largest and northernmost of the Queen Charlotte Islands. 2485 sq. mi. (6436 sq. km).
  • gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
  • grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
  • grand marshal — marshal (def 8).
  • grandad shirt — a long-sleeved collarless shirt
  • grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
  • granddaughter — a daughter of one's son or daughter.
  • grandfathered — Simple past tense and past participle of grandfather.
  • grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • graphics card — graphics adaptor
  • great-hearted — having or showing a generous heart; magnanimous.
  • groundhog day — February 2, in most parts of the U.S., the day on which, according to legend, the groundhog first emerges from hibernation. If it is a sunny day and the groundhog sees its shadow, six more weeks of wintry weather are predicted.
  • gynandromorph — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • h and d curve — characteristic curve.
  • h and l hinge — a surface-mounted hinge that when applied resembles H and L combined.
  • haberdasher's — a shop that sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons, zips, and ribbons
  • habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.
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