12-letter words containing h, a, n, d, i
- exheredation — A disinheriting; disherison.
- fainthearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
- farthingland — a unit of land area, sometimes described as being equivalent to thirty acres
- fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- fountainhead — a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.
- four-in-hand — a long necktie to be tied in a slipknot with the ends left hanging.
- french drain — a drainage trench filled to ground level with fragments of brick, rock, etc.
- french india — the five small former French territories in India, including Chandernagor, Karikal, Pondicherry, and Yanaon on the E coast, and Mahé on the W coast.
- guanethidine — a potent adrenergic neuron blocking agent, C 10 H 22 N 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
- habilimented — Clothed.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- hairdressing — the act or process of cutting, combing out, doing up, or styling hair.
- hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- half binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
- half landing — a landing halfway up a flight of stairs
- half-binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
- hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- hand in hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand of writ — handwriting; penmanship.
- hand setting — Also called French telephone. a telephone having a mouthpiece and earpiece mounted at opposite ends of a handle.
- hand-deliver — to deliver in person or by messenger.
- hand-holding — the act of holding hands, especially as a sign or token of affection.
- hand-painted — painted by a person rather than a machine
- hand-picking — to pick by hand.
- hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
- hand-running — in unbroken succession; consecutively.
- hand-selling — a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
- hand-written — to write (something) by hand.
- handclapping — The activity of clapping hands, especially as part of a musical performance.
- handcrafting — Present participle of handcraft.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handicapping — Present participle of handicap.
- handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
- handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
- handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
- handstitched — Stitched by hand.
- handwringing — a physical expression of concern, distress, or guilt.
- hang gliding — the sport of launching oneself from a cliff or a steep incline and soaring through the air by means of a hang glider.
- hang-gliding — Hang-gliding is the activity of flying in a hang-glider.