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16-letter words containing h, e, d, o

  • have a good time — enjoy yourself, have fun
  • have a word with — discuss
  • have been around — be experienced
  • have the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • have the edge on — to have a slight advantage or superiority over
  • have the wood on — to have an advantage over
  • head normal form — (theory, reduction)   (HNF) A term describing a lambda expression whose top level is either a variable, a data value, a built-in function applied to too few arguments, or a lambda abstraction whose body is not reducible. I.e. the top level is neither a redex nor a lambda abstraction with a reducible body. An expression in HNF may contain redexes in argument postions whereas a normal form may not. Compare Weak Head Normal Form.
  • head post office — the main post office in a town
  • headed notepaper — notepaper headed with the name and address of a person or organization
  • health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
  • health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
  • hedge one's bets — If you hedge your bets, you reduce the risk of losing a lot by supporting more than one person or thing in a situation where they are opposed to each other.
  • hemorrhoidectomy — the surgical removal of hemorrhoids.
  • hen of the woods — a large, grayish-brown, edible fungus, Polyporus frondosus, forming a mass of overlapping caps at the base of trees and somewhat resembling a hen.
  • heralds' college — a royal corporation in England, instituted in 1483, concerned chiefly with armorial bearings, genealogies, honors, and precedence.
  • hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
  • hernando de soto — Hernando [her-nan-doh;; Spanish er-nahn-daw] /hərˈnæn doʊ;; Spanish ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), or Fernando [fer-nan-doh;; Spanish fer-nahn-daw] /fərˈnæn doʊ;; Spanish fɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), c1500–42, Spanish soldier and explorer in America.
  • herod agrippa ii — died ?93 ad, king of territories in N Palestine (50–?93 ad). He presided (60) at the trial of Saint Paul and sided with the Roman authorities in the Jewish rebellion of 66
  • heroin addiction — addiction to the drug heroin
  • herringbone bond — a brickwork bond in which the exposed brickwork is bonded to the heart of the wall by concealed courses of bricks laid diagonally to the faces of the wall in a herringbone pattern, with the end of each brick butting against the side of the adjoining brick; a form of raking bond.
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • hexahydroaniline — cyclohexylamine.
  • hexahydrobenzene — cyclohexane.
  • hexanedioic acid — adipic acid.
  • high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
  • hit one's stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
  • hodmezovasarhely — a city in SE Hungary.
  • hoek van holland — Hook of Holland.
  • hold a brief for — to argue for; champion
  • hold one's peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
  • holder condition — Lipschitz condition.
  • home health aide — a worker, usually trained and state-certified, who provides care for elderly, sick, or disabled people in their own home.
  • homme d'affaires — a businessman.
  • homogenized milk — milk in which the fat globules are evenly distributed
  • honeymoon bridge — any of several varieties of bridge for two players.
  • honeymoon period — a period of popularity enjoyed by a new government, or a new occupant of a post
  • hookworm disease — any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
  • hopfield network — (artificial intelligence)   (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
  • horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
  • horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
  • horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
  • horseradish tree — a tropical tree, Moringa pterygosperma, having fragrant white flowers and seeds yielding a commercially useful oil.
  • hot and bothered — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
  • hot buttered rum — a drink made with rum, hot water, and sugar, served with a lump of butter in a mug.
  • hot-cathode tube — thermionic tube.
  • household chores — tasks such as cleaning, washing, and ironing that have to be done regularly at home
  • household knight — bachelor (def 5).
  • household troops — the infantry and cavalry regiments that carry out escort and guard duties for a head of state
  • household-knight — an unmarried man.
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