13-letter words containing h, i, e, d
- draw the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- dresden china — porcelain ware produced at Meissen, Germany, near Dresden, after 1710.
- driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
- drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
- driving wheel — Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
- drongo shrike — any insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics, having a glossy black plumage, a forked tail, and a stout bill
- drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
- dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
- dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
- duc d'enghien — Duc [dyk] /dük/ (Show IPA), (Louis Antoine Henry de Bourbon-Condé) 1772–1804, French prince: executed by Napoleon I.
- dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
- dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
- dyothelitical — relating to dyotheletism
- dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
- eastern hindi — the vernacular of the eastern half of the Hindi-speaking area in India.
- echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
- edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- eighth-grader — someone who is in the eighth grade at school
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
- english daisy — a small perennial plant (Bellis perennis) of the composite family, having single stalked heads with white or pinkish ray flowers
- epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
- ethanoic acid — acetic acid
- ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
- eventide home — a retirement home
- exhaustipated — Too tired to care about anything.
- faint-hearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
- farther india — a peninsula in SE Asia, between India and China: consists of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia
- fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
- feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
- fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
- field kitchen — the place at which the food for a unit of soldiers in the field is prepared
- field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
- fifth disease — Pathology. a mild infection, most often seen in children or young adults, caused by a small virus ((the human parvovirus B19)) and marked by a blotchy rash on the cheeks, arms, and legs.
- fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
- finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
- finnan haddie — smoked haddock.
- fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
- fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
- foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.