10-letter words containing h, e, a, d
- handpicked — Picked by hand; picked or selected with care.
- handpieces — Plural form of handpiece.
- hands-free — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- handseling — Present participle of handsel.
- handselled — Simple past tense and past participle of handsel.
- handshaker — a person who is or is required to be overtly or ostentatiously friendly: Politicians are often incurable handshakers.
- handshakes — Plural form of handshake.
- handsomely — in a handsome manner; pleasingly; successfully.
- handsomest — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handspikes — Plural form of handspike.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- handwarmer — a small, flat, usually pocket-size device containing material, as chemicals, hot liquids, or a battery-operated heating element, for warming the hands.
- handywomen — Plural form of handywoman.
- hansardize — to prove that (a member of parliament) has changed his views from those quoted in Hansard
- harassedly — in a harassed manner
- harborside — bordering a harbor.
- 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 drive — hard disk drive
- hard lines — bad luck
- hard maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- hard money — (in the US) money given directly to a candidate in an election to assist his or her campaign
- hard paste — true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
- hard peach — a clingstone peach.
- hard power — the ability to achieve one's goals by force, esp military force
- hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
- hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hard water — water that contains magnesium, calcium, or iron salts and therefore forms a soap lather with difficulty.
- hard wheat — a wheat, as durum wheat, characterized by flinty, dark-colored kernels that yield a flour used in making bread, macaroni, etc.
- hard-assed — tough and uncompromising
- hard-asset — denoting an asset with intrinsic value: diamonds and other hard-asset commodities.
- 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-edged — realistic and uncompromising: a hard-edged documentary.
- hard-faced — cheeky
- hard-liner — a person who adheres rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan.
- hard-nosed — hardheaded or tough; unsentimentally practical: a hard-nosed labor leader.
- hard-shell — Also, hard-shelled. having a firm, hard shell, as a crab in its normal state; not having recently molted.
- hard-wired — Computers. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
- hardbacked — (of a book) Having a solid binding; hardback.
- hardballer — (informal) One who exhibits hardball (tough or ruthless) behaviour.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- harden off — to accustom (a cultivated plant) or (of such a plant) to become accustomed to outdoor conditions by repeated exposure
- hardenable — to make hard or harder: to harden steel.
- hardenberg — Novalis.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- hardhanded — Forceful, excessive, draconian, or abusive.
- hardheaded — not easily moved or deceived; practical; shrewd.
- hardliners — Plural form of hardliner.
- hardnesses — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.