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16-letter words containing h, i, d, e, n, a

  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • dechristianizing — Present participle of dechristianize.
  • deep in the past — long ago
  • deep-sea fishing — the activity of catching fish that live in the deep parts of the sea
  • dehumidification — Dehumidification is the removal of vapor from a gas-vapor mixture.
  • dental hygienist — a dentist's assistant skilled in dental hygiene
  • deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
  • devonshire cream — clotted cream.
  • diacetylmorphine — heroin.
  • dialysis machine — device: kidney treatment
  • diethyl carbinol — a colorless, liquid isomer of amyl alcohol, (CH3CH2)2CHOH, used in drugs and as a solvent
  • dihydroxyacetone — (organic compound) The compound CO(CH2OH)2 that has a number of industrial uses.
  • dimethoxymethane — methylal.
  • dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
  • disenfranchising — Present participle of disenfranchise.
  • disestablishment — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
  • disfranchisement — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
  • dishonorableness — The property of being dishonorable.
  • district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
  • dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
  • drainage channel — a channel along which drained water flows away
  • dredging machine — dredge1 (def 1).
  • dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
  • dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
  • dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • english canadian — a Canadian citizen whose first language is English, esp one of English descent
  • enriched uranium — uranium in which the proportion of the fissile isotope U-235 has been increased to make it more fissile
  • ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • faintheartedness — The quality or state of being fainthearted.
  • fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
  • federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
  • fisherman's bend — a knot made by taking a round turn on the object to which the rope is to be fastened, passing the end of the rope around the standing part and under the round turn, and securing the end.
  • fishskin disease — ichthyosis
  • flight attendant — an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
  • floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
  • for the duration — If you say that something will happen for the duration, you mean that it will happen for as long as a particular situation continues.
  • forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
  • french indochina — an area in SE Asia, formerly a French colonial federation including Cochin-China, the protectorates of Annam, Cambodia, Tonkin, and Laos, and the leased territory of Kwangchowan: now comprising the three independent states of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Capital: Hanoi.
  • ft share indexes — any of a number of share indexes published by the Financial Times to reflect various aspects of stock exchange prices
  • gender dysphoria — a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth.
  • glendale heights — a city in NE Illinois.
  • graphic designer — person: commercial artist
  • great-grandchild — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
  • greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
  • hacienda heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • haemodynamically — from a hemodynamic point of view
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