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12-letter words containing h, e, a, d

  • char-grilled — Char-grilled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
  • charles drew — Charles Richard, 1904–50, U.S. physician: developer of blood-bank technique.
  • checkerboard — A checkerboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing checkers or chess.
  • cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
  • cheerleaders — Plural form of cheerleader.
  • cheerleading — the action or skill of a cheerleader.
  • cheese board — A cheese board is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
  • cheeseboards — Plural form of cheeseboard.
  • chef's salad — A chef's salad is a green salad with hard-boiled egg and strips of meat and cheese on top.
  • chequerboard — Alternative spelling of checkerboard.
  • chicken head — (graphics, abuse)   The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
  • chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
  • child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
  • childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
  • childrearing — the raising and parenting of children: Childrearing extends beyond simple guardianship to nurturing and guidance.
  • chiliahedron — a thousand-sided polyhedron
  • chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
  • chinese date — an Old World tree, Ziziphus jujuba, thriving in hot, dry regions.
  • chloralamide — (chemistry) A compound of chloral and formic amide, used to induce sleep.
  • chord change — a movement from one chord to another
  • chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
  • chowderheads — Plural form of chowderhead.
  • churchwarden — In the Anglican Church, a churchwarden is the person who has been chosen by a congregation to help the vicar of a parish with administration and other duties.
  • cigar holder — a mouthpiece of wood, ivory, etc, used for holding a cigar while it is smoked
  • cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
  • cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
  • clam chowder — chowder containing clams
  • class method — (programming)   1. A method that operates on a class object (an object of class "class"). A class method is really just an ordinary object method that happens to operate on class objects. A class method might, for example, return a list of objects representing the methods and attributes of the given class. 2. A static method.
  • clean-handed — free from wrongdoing; guiltless.
  • clear-headed — If you describe someone as clear-headed, you mean that they are sensible and think clearly, especially in difficult situations.
  • clearsighted — seeing clearly
  • close-hauled — with the sails flat, so as to sail as close to the wind as possible
  • closed chain — any structural arrangement, used in the models and formulas of molecules, consisting of a chain of atoms that forms a closed geometric figure; ring
  • clutch pedal — The clutch pedal is the pedal by which the driver of a vehicle operates the clutch.
  • coach driver — a person who drives a coach
  • coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
  • code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
  • cold cathode — a cathode from which electrons are emitted at ambient temperature, due to a high potential gradient at the surface
  • cold-hearted — A cold-hearted person does not feel any affection or sympathy towards other people.
  • come to hand — to become available; be received
  • counter hand — a person who works behind a counter; assistant
  • creaturehood — the state of being a creature
  • crowned head — a monarch
  • cruelhearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
  • curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
  • dall's sheep — a white-haired wild sheep, Ovis dalli, of mountainous regions of northwestern North America, having curved horns.
  • damselfishes — Plural form of damselfish.
  • daniel shays — Daniel, 1747–1825, American Revolutionary War soldier: leader of a popular insurrection (Shays' Rebellion) in Massachusetts 1786–87.
  • daphnephoria — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
  • dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
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