11-letter words containing h, e, a, d, s, r
- disenthrall — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- dish aerial — a microwave aerial, used esp in radar, radio telescopes, and satellite broadcasting, consisting of a parabolic reflector
- disheartens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dishearten.
- dishearting — Present participle of disheart.
- dishwashers — Plural form of dishwasher.
- dispatchers — Plural form of dispatcher.
- do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- draughtiest — Superlative form of draughty.
- draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
- drive shaft — a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.
- dunderheads — Plural form of dunderhead.
- far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- 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.
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- food shares — investment shares in food companies
- foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
- fresh-faced — having a healthy or ruddy appearance
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- gatecrashed — Simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- grade sheet — a piece of paper on which a student's grades are recorded
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
- haberdasher — a retail dealer in men's furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.
- haggardness — having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn: the haggard faces of the tired troops.
- hairdresser — a person who arranges or cuts hair.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard cheese — an unpleasant, difficult, or adverse situation: It's hard cheese for the unskilled worker these days.
- hard sector — (storage) An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- hardpressed — Subject to difficulty in accomplishing or making progress.
- hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- 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.
- headbangers — Plural form of headbanger.
- headdresses — Plural form of headdress.
- headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
- headmasters — Plural form of headmaster.
- headscarves — Plural form of headscarf.
- headstander — A small deep-bodied freshwater fish of the Amazon region, popular in aquaria. It swims and feeds at an oblique angle with the head down.