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13-letter words containing h, a, n, d

  • head gardener — the senior gardener who is in charge of a park, the garden of a large house, etc
  • head linesman — an official who makes rulings regarding play along the line of scrimmage and who oversees the measurement and marking of yardage gained or lost
  • head shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • head-shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • headline rate — a basic rate of inflation, taxation, etc, before distorting factors have been removed
  • headshrinkers — Plural form of headshrinker.
  • heart-rending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
  • heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
  • heavenly body — celestial object: star, planet, etc.
  • hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • hendecahedron — a solid figure having 11 faces.
  • heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
  • heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
  • hereditaments — Plural form of hereditament.
  • hereditarians — Plural form of hereditarian.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • 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.
  • heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
  • hexactinellid — a type of sponge characterized by their (usually) six siliceous spicules or rays
  • hexanoic acid — caproic acid.
  • hidden agenda — an often duplicitously undisclosed plan or motive.
  • hide and seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
  • hide-and-seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
  • highland park — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
  • hold in leash — to control; curb; restrain
  • honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
  • hoodman-blind — blindman's buff.
  • horned lizard — an insectivorous iguanid lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of western North America, having hornlike spines on the head and a flattened body covered with spiny scales.
  • 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.
  • hot and heavy — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
  • hotheadedness — The state or characteristic of being hotheaded; the tendency to be easily infuriated or provoked.
  • house-trained — housebroken.
  • househusbands — Plural form of househusband.
  • hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
  • hudson strait — a strait connecting Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. 450 miles (725 km) long; 100 miles (160 km) wide.
  • huff and puff — be out of breath
  • hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
  • hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
  • hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
  • hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
  • hybridization — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
  • hydroboration — (chemistry) the production or organoboranes by the addition of diborane to unsaturated organic compounds.
  • hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
  • hydrodynamics — the branch of fluid dynamics that deals with liquids, including hydrostatics and hydrokinetics.
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