7-letter words containing h, a, d
- dogwash — /dog'wosh/ (A quip in the "urgency" field of a very optional software change request, ca. 1982. It was something like "Urgency: Wash your dog first") A project of minimal priority, undertaken as an escape from more serious work. Many games and much freeware get written this way, including this dictionary.
- dontcha — Eye dialect of don't you.
- doodahs — Plural form of doodah.
- dorhawk — nightjar
- dorlach — a quiver for arrows
- drachma — a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 lepta. Abbreviation: dr., drch.
- drachms — Plural form of drachm.
- draught — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- duarchy — a government or form of government in which power is vested equally in two rulers.
- duchamp — Marcel [mar-sel] /marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1887–1968, French painter, in U.S. after 1915 (brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Jacques Villon).
- duhamel — Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), (Denis Thévenin) 1884–1966, French novelist, physician, poet, and essayist.
- dyarchy — diarchy.
- earthed — (British) Grounded, connected electrically to the ground.
- echidna — Also called spiny anteater. any of several insectivorous monotremes of the genera Tachyglossus, of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, and Zaglossus, of New Guinea, that have claws and a slender snout and are covered with coarse hair and long spines.
- edaphic — related to or caused by particular soil conditions, as of texture or drainage, rather than by physiographic or climatic factors.
- edaphon — the aggregate of organisms that live in the soil.
- egghead — an intellectual.
- em dash — punctuation mark: long dash
- en dash — punctuation mark: short dash
- endarch — (of a xylem strand) having the first-formed xylem internal to that formed later
- ephedra — An evergreen shrub of warm, arid regions that has trailing or climbing stems and tiny, scalelike leaves . Some kinds are a source of ephedrine and are used medicinally.
- exhaled — Simple past tense and past participle of exhale.
- exhedra — Alternative form of exedra.
- faddish — like a fad.
- faithed — having faith or a faith
- fashoda — a village in the SE Sudan, on the White Nile: conflict of British and French colonial interests 1898 (Fashoda Incident)
- fathead — Slang. a stupid person; fool.
- flashed — Simple past tense and past participle of flash.
- flyhand — a person who collects and stacks printed matter from a printing press
- galahad — Sir Arthurian Romance. the noblest and purest knight of the Round Table, son of Lancelot and Elaine: gained the Holy Grail.
- gandzha — a former name of Gäncä.
- gnashed — to grind or strike (the teeth) together, especially in rage or pain.
- go hard — to cause trouble or unhappiness (to)
- godhead — the essential being of God; the Supreme Being. the Holy Trinity of God the Father, Christ the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
- godthåb — capital of Greenland, on the SW coast: pop. 12,000
- graphed — Simple past tense and past participle of graph.
- habdabs — Alternative form of abdabs.
- habited — inhabited.
- hackled — Simple past tense and past participle of hackle.
- hadarim — plural of heder.
- hadaway — an exclamation urging the hearer to refrain from delay in the execution of a task
- haddock — a North Atlantic food fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the cod family.
- hadedah — a large greyish-green ibis, Hagedeshia hagedash, having a greenish metallic sheen on the wing coverts and shoulders
- hadrian — Adrian VI.
- hadrome — the part of the xylem of plants that transmits water and nutrients
- hadrons — Plural form of hadron.
- haedine — (rare, humorous) Resembling in form or exhibiting the behaviour typical of a kid (i.e., a juvenile goat); compare 'caprine', 'hircine'.
- haggada — Haggadah (def 1).
- haggard — having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn: the haggard faces of the tired troops.
- haggled — Simple past tense and past participle of haggle.