11-letter words containing h, e, a, d, l
- hurdle race — a race in which people have to jump over a number of obstacles while running
- hurdle rate — the rate of return that a proposed project must provide if it is to be worth considering: usually calculated as the cost of the capital involved adjusted by a risk factor
- husbandable — Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
- husbandless — Without a husband.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hydralazine — a white crystalline powder, C 8 H 8 N 4 , that dilates blood vessels and is used in the treatment of hypertension.
- hydrolysate — any compound formed by hydrolysis.
- hydroplaned — Simple past tense and past participle of hydroplane.
- hydroplaner — a person who pilots a hydroplane, especially a professional speedboat racer.
- hydroplanes — Plural form of hydroplane.
- hydroxylase — any enzyme that catalyzes the introduction of a hydroxyl group into a substance.
- hydroxylate — to introduce hydroxyl into (a compound).
- hyperdactyl — having an excessive number of fingers or toes
- hyperlydian — relating to the highest scale or mode in ancient Greek music
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- 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
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- jealoushood — jealousy
- knucklehead — a stupid, bumbling, inept person.
- laddishness — (British) Laddish attitudes and behaviour; laddism.
- lady chapel — a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, attached to a church, and generally behind the high altar at the extremity of the apse.
- lakshadweep — a union territory of India comprising a group of islands and coral reefs in the Arabian Sea, off the SW coast of India. About 12 sq. mi. (31 sq. km).
- land-holder — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
- landholders — Plural form of landholder.
- landsknecht — a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd.
- lanthanides — Plural form of lanthanide.
- lead weight — a weight made of lead
- leader head — a boxlike head of a downspout connected to a gutter.
- 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.
- leaseholder — a tenant under a lease.
- leatherhead — any of various Australasian honeyeaters, especially of the genus Philemon.
- leatherwood — an American shrub, Dirca palustris, having a tough bark.
- left-handed — having the left hand more dominant or effective than the right; preferably using the left hand: a left-handed pitcher.
- left-hander — a person who is left-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the left hand.
- lend a hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- lethal dose — the amount of a drug or other agent that if administered to an animal or human will prove fatal
- lethargized — Simple past tense and past participle of lethargize.
- letterheads — Plural form of letterhead.
- levelheaded — having common sense and sound judgment; sensible.
- liddel hart — Sir Basil (Henry) 1895–1970, English military authority and writer.
- light bread — white bread.
- light-armed — carrying light weapons: light-armed troops.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- lightheaded — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- lionhearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- little hand — the ticking hand on a watch or clock which indicates or points to the hour
- lizard head — a promontory in SW Cornwall, in SW England: the southernmost point in England.
- loathedness — the state or condition of being an object of disgust and dislike
- loggerheads — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.