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11-letter words containing h, e, d, l, s

  • disheveling — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
  • dishevelled — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
  • dishonestly — In a dishonest manner.
  • dissembleth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissemble.
  • ditheletism — the theory and belief that Christ had two wills, human and divine
  • dog whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
  • dog-whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
  • dollishness — The quality of being dollish.
  • doltishness — The characteristic of being doltish.
  • embellished — Simple past tense and past participle of embellish.
  • endochylous — having water-storing cells
  • episulphide — (organic chemistry) A class of organic compound analogous to epoxides in which a sulphur atom replaces the oxygen.
  • established — (of a custom, belief, practice, or institution) Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.
  • exhaustedly — In an exhausted manner.
  • fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
  • feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
  • fiddleheads — Plural form of fiddlehead.
  • fiddlerfish — any of several guitarfishes, especially Trygonorhina fasciata, of Australia.
  • field house — a building housing the dressing facilities, storage spaces, etc., used in connection with an athletic field.
  • fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
  • 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.
  • flesh wound — a wound that does not penetrate beyond the flesh; a slight or superficial wound.
  • flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
  • freeholders — Plural form of freeholder.
  • fundholders — Plural form of fundholder.
  • god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
  • goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
  • goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
  • 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)
  • half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
  • half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
  • hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
  • handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
  • hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
  • heat island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
  • heat shield — a coating or structure that surrounds part of the nose cone or other vulnerable surfaces of a spacecraft and, by heat absorption or ablation, protects them from excessive heating during reentry.
  • heat-island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
  • hedgeapples — Plural form of hedgeapple.
  • heedfulness — The state or quality of being heedful.
  • hellbenders — Plural form of hellbender.
  • heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
  • highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
  • hinderlands — the buttocks
  • hinderlings — the buttocks or bottom
  • hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
  • hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
  • hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
  • holy orders — (used with a singular verb) the rite or sacrament of ordination.
  • hooded seal — a large seal, Cystophora cristata, the male of which has a large, distensible, hoodlike sac on the head.
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