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16-letter words containing h, a, n, d, e

  • draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
  • dredging machine — dredge1 (def 1).
  • dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
  • dunderheadedness — Stupidity.
  • dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
  • dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
  • eastern orthodox — of or relating to the Orthodox Church.
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • english canadian — a Canadian citizen whose first language is English, esp one of English descent
  • enriched uranium — uranium in which the proportion of the fissile isotope U-235 has been increased to make it more fissile
  • ethernet address — (networking)   (Or "MAC address") The physical address identifying an individual Ethernet controller board. An Ethernet addess is a 48-bit number aabbccddeeff where a-f are hexadecimal digits. The first 24 bits, aabbcc, identify the manufacturer of the controller. The Ethernet address is hard-wired on some controllers, stored in a ROM on some, and others allow it to be changed from software. It is usually written as six hexadecimal numbers, e.g. 08:00:20:03:72:DC. See also ARP, Internet address.
  • ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
  • exchange student — sb who studies abroad
  • 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.
  • false dragonhead — a North American plant, Physostegia virginiana, of the mint family, having a spike of tubular, two-lipped, pink or white flowers.
  • fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
  • federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
  • 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.
  • floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
  • 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
  • force one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • forward exchange — a foreign bill purchased at a stipulated price and payable at a future date.
  • founders' shares — shares awarded to the founders of a company and often granting special privileges
  • fourth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.
  • freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
  • 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
  • gadsden purchase — a tract of 45,535 sq. mi. (117,935 sq. km), now contained in New Mexico and Arizona, purchased for $10,000,000 from Mexico in 1853, the treaty being negotiated by James Gadsden.
  • 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.
  • go to one's head — If alcoholic drink goes to your head, it makes you feel drunk.
  • gold-headed cane — a long thin stick with a curved or round top made of gold
  • golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
  • golden handshake — a special incentive, as generous severance pay, given to an older employee as an inducement to elect early retirement.
  • golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
  • good-heartedness — the quality of being good-hearted
  • granted (that) … — even assuming that
  • graphic designer — person: commercial artist
  • great horned owl — a large, brown-speckled owl, Bubo virginianus, common in the Western Hemisphere, having prominent ear tufts.
  • great-grandchild — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
  • grenade launcher — a device attached to the muzzle of a rifle, permitting the firing of rifle grenades.
  • greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
  • 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.
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