12-letter words containing h, a, n, d, e
- peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
- pentahydrate — a hydrate that contains five molecules of water, as potassium molybdate, KMoO 4 ⋅5H 2 O.
- pentahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing five hydroxyl groups.
- philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- phytonadione — vitamin K1.
- pidyon haben — the rite of relieving the first male child born to parents not descended from Aaron or Levi of certain religious obligations by redeeming him from a member of the priestly class, celebrated 30 days after the child's birth.
- pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
- pudding-head — a stupid person
- pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- punched card — a card having holes punched in specific positions and patterns so as to represent data to be stored or processed mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.
- punched tape — Computers. paper tape.
- radiant heat — heat energy transmitted by electromagnetic waves in contrast to heat transmitted by conduction or convection.
- ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
- raven-haired — with glossy deep black hair
- red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
- rhode island — US state
- rhodomontade — rodomontade
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- right-handed — having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.
- right-hander — a person who is right-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the right hand.
- running head — a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
- shevardnadze — Eduard A [ed-werd;; Russian ed-wahrt] /ˈɛd wərd;; Russian ɛdˈwɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1928–2014, Soviet foreign minister 1985–91; president of his native Georgian Republic 1995–2003.
- short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- shoshone dam — a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.
- snake's head — checkered lily.
- snake's-head — checkered lily.
- snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
- spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- sudden death — an overtime period in which a tied contest is won and play is stopped immediately after one of the contestants scores, as in football, or goes ahead, as in golf.
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections