10-letter words containing h, a, r, d, c
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- discharged — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- dischargee — a person who has been discharged, as from military service.
- discharger — Someone or something that discharges something, such as pollution or a firearm.
- discharges — Plural form of discharge.
- disencharm — To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
- disk crash — the failure of a disk storage system, usually resulting from the read-write head touching the moving disk surface and causing mechanical damage
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- ditchwater — water, especially stagnant and dirty water, that has collected in a ditch.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- door chain — a short chain with a removable slide fitting that can be attached between the inside of a door and the doorjamb to prevent the door from being opened more than a few inches without the chain being removed.
- drag chain — one of a number of chains attached to a hull about to be launched in restricted waters in order to slow its motion by dragging along the bottom.
- dude ranch — a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.
- dutch barn — a farm building consisting of a steel frame and a curved roof
- dyrrachium — a port in W Albania, on the Adriatic. Pop: 86 900 (1991 est)
- dysarthric — Afflicted with, or pertaining to, dysarthria.
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- dysgraphic — a person who suffers from dysgraphia
- encroached — Simple past tense and past participle of encroach.
- farfetched — improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
- flash card — a card having words, numerals, or pictures on it, designed for gaining a rapid response from pupils when held up briefly by a teacher, used especially in reading, arithmetic, or vocabulary drills.
- flashcards — Plural form of flashcard.
- franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
- grand chop — (in China and India trade) a customs clearance.
- grandchild — a child of one's son or daughter.
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- hand cream — a cream that you put on your hands to make them feel softer and smoother
- hand cruft — (jargon) (After "hand craft") To write something by hand that would be better done automatically, e.g. writing assembly language instead of using a compiler (see hand hacking).
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- hand-carry — to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons: The ambassador hand-carried a message from the president.
- handcrafts — Plural form of handcraft.
- handicraft — manual skill.
- handscroll — A traditional Asian scroll that unfolds horizontally so that the reader can view one section at a time while holding it in the hands.
- hard candy — candy, often fruit flavored, made by boiling together sugar and corn syrup.
- hard cider — the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- hard court — a tennis court having a concrete or asphalt surface.
- hard crash — (programming) When a program stops running completely and unexpectedly, often due to external events, e.g. the CPU overheating or an unrecoverable memory error. See also disk crash.
- hard peach — a clingstone peach.
- hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
- hard-coded — (jargon) (By analogy with "hard-wired") Said of a data value or behaviour written directly into a program, possibly in multiple places, where it cannot be easily modified. There are several alternatives, depending on how often the value is likely to change. It may be replaced with a compile-time constant, such as a C "#define" macro, in which case a change will still require recompilation; or it may be read at run time from a profile, resource (see de-rezz), or environment variable that a user can easily modify; or it may be read as part of the program's input data. To change something hard-coded requires recompilation (if using a compiled language of course) but, more seriously, it requires sufficient understanding of the implementation to be sure that the change will not introduce inconsistency and cause the program to fail. For example, "The line terminator is hard-coded as newline; who in their right mind would use anything else?" See magic number.
- hard-faced — cheeky
- hard-knock — beset with hardship.
- hardbacked — (of a book) Having a solid binding; hardback.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- head clerk — a supervisor; manager
- headcollar — A bitless headpiece for leading or tying up a horse.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.