11-letter words containing h, i, d, n
- nonadhesive — coated with glue, paste, mastic, or other sticky substance: adhesive bandages.
- nonhumanoid — Not humanoid.
- northbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- odynophagia — Severe pain in mouth or esophagus when attempting to swallow.
- old english — Also called Anglo-Saxon. the English language of a.d. c450–c1150. Abbreviation: OE.
- old spanish — the Spanish language of the 12th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OSp.
- on the side — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- on the wind — as near as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- ornithopods — Plural form of ornithopod.
- orthodontia — orthodontics.
- orthodontic — Of, or relating to the dental speciality of orthodontics.
- overnighted — for or during the night: to stay overnight.
- panhandling — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
- pathfinding — a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc., especially through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
- peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
- pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
- phagedaenic — relating to or having the characteristics of phagedaena
- phenetidine — a colorless organic liquid, C 8 H 1 1 NO, used chiefly in its para form (para-phenetidine) in the synthesis of phenacetin, dyes, and other compounds.
- philanderer — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- phonofiddle — an upright, one-stringed musical instrument which also has a horn that acts as an amplifier, played with a bow whilst held between the knees
- pitchblende — a massive variety of uraninite, occurring in black pitchlike masses: a major ore of uranium and radium.
- podophyllin — a resin, occurring as a light brown to greenish amorphous powder, obtained from podophyllum, and used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic and, locally, in the treatment of genital warts.
- pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
- pondicherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- prefinished — coated or treated before use or sale: prefinished wood.
- pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- qinhuangdao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
- quinhydrone — a dark green, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 1 2 H 1 0 O 4 , used in solution, together with a platinum wire, as an electrode (quinhy·drone elec·trode)
- radiophonic — a radiotelephone.
- radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
- rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- red herring — a smoked herring.
- redhibition — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
- redshirting — a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. a child held back from starting kindergarten for one year, the practice of which is believed by some parents to give the child academic, athletic, and social advantages.
- rehydration — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
- replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- rhinestoned — adorned with rhinestones
- ridesharing — of or relating to the sharing of rides or transportation, especially among commuters: The agency was set up to devise a ridesharing program.
- riding high — confident, popular, and successful
- roadholding — A vehicle's roadholding is how easy it is to control safely in difficult driving conditions or when going round bends.
- sandringham — a village in N Norfolk, England: site of Sandringham House, Royal Family mansion.
- sandwiching — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
- sash window — A sash window is a window which consists of two frames placed one above the other. The window can be opened by sliding one frame over the other.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
- sedan chair — an enclosed vehicle for one person, borne on poles by two bearers and common during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- share index — A share index is a number that indicates the state of a stock market. It is based on the combined share prices of a set of companies.