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11-letter words containing h, a, r, d, i, s

  • do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
  • draughtiest — Superlative form of draughty.
  • drive shaft — a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.
  • drosophilas — Plural form of drosophila.
  • dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
  • dysrhythmia — a disturbance of rhythm, as of speech or of brain waves recorded by an electroencephalograph.
  • far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
  • fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
  • fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
  • flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
  • hadrosaurid — (zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.
  • hairdresser — a person who arranges or cuts hair.
  • halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
  • hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
  • handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
  • handsprings — Plural form of handspring.
  • harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
  • hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
  • hardscaping — Hardscape.
  • harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
  • harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.
  • hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
  • head-strict — (theory)   A head-strict function will not necessarily evaluate every cons cell of its (list) argument, but whenever it does evaluate a cons cell it will also evaluate the element in the head of that cell. An example of a head-strict function is beforeZero :: [Int] -> [Int] beforeZero [] = [] beforeZero (0:xs) = [] beforeZero (x:xs) = x : beforeZero xs which returns a list up to the first zero. This pattern of evaluation is important because it is common in functions which operate on a list of inputs. See also tail-strict, hyperstrict.
  • headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
  • headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
  • heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
  • highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
  • hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
  • hinderlands — the buttocks
  • hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
  • his-and-her — denoting two matching or identical items, one intended for use by a male and the other by a female: his-and-her towels in the bathroom; his-and-her sweatshirts.
  • historiated — (especially of initial letters on an illuminated manuscript) decorated with animals, flowers, or other designs that have a narrative or symbolic purpose.
  • hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
  • horseradish — a cultivated plant, Armoracia rusticana, of the mustard family, having small, white flowers.
  • hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
  • hydrostatic — of or relating to hydrostatics.
  • icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
  • icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
  • idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
  • isodiaphere — one of two or more nuclides in which the difference between the number of neutrons and the number of protons is the same
  • kurdaitchas — Plural form of kurdaitcha.
  • leader-ship — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
  • leaderships — Plural form of leadership.
  • lizard fish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
  • loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
  • merchandise — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • mis-phrased — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
  • mithridates — Plural form of mithridate.
  • nearsighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
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