13-letter words containing h, a, n, d, s, t
- hard standing — a hard-surfaced area on which heavy vehicles or airplanes can be parked.
- hard-and-fast — strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated: hard-and-fast rules.
- harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
- hereditaments — Plural form of hereditament.
- hereditarians — Plural form of hereditarian.
- herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
- horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- hotheadedness — The state or characteristic of being hotheaded; the tendency to be easily infuriated or provoked.
- house-trained — housebroken.
- hudson strait — a strait connecting Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. 450 miles (725 km) long; 100 miles (160 km) wide.
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- ichthyopsidan — a member of the class Ichthyopsida
- in the saddle — a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.
- landsmanshaft — a fraternal organization made up of immigrants from the same region.
- list enhanced — (operating system, tool) An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
- lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
- nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
- northeastward — the northeast.
- northwestward — the northwest.
- open and shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
- open-and-shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
- pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
- photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- prosthodontia — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
- resident head — someone who is charge of running and supervising a student residence
- sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
- sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
- scandal sheet — a newspaper or magazine that emphasizes scandal or gossip.
- seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
- seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
- shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
- shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- show and tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
- show-and-tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- sight reading — the act or skill of performing unfamiliar written music, or of translating something written in a foreign language, readily on sight, without previous study
- single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
- south dakotan — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 77,047 sq. mi. (199,550 sq. km). Capital: Pierre. Abbreviation: SD (for use with zip code), S. Dak.
- south holland — a province in the SW Netherlands. 1086 sq. mi. (2810 sq. km). Capital: The Hague.
- southern toad — a common toad, Bufo terrestris, of the southeastern U.S., having prominent knoblike crests on its head.
- spotted hyena — a long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal native to Africa and S Asia (Crocuta crocuta)