11-letter words containing h, o, n, e, d
- four-handed — involving four hands or players, as a game at cards: Bridge is usually a four-handed game.
- freeholding — Property held in freehold.
- french door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- fundholders — Plural form of fundholder.
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- get the nod — sb: have permission
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- godchildren — Plural form of godchild.
- golden horn — an inlet of the Bosporus, in European Turkey: forms the inner part of Istanbul.
- golden hour — the first hour after a serious accident, when it is crucial that the victim receives medical treatment in order to have a chance of surviving
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- grandmother — the mother of one's father or mother.
- grind house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grind-house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- groundsheet — a waterproof sheet of plastic, canvas, or other durable material spread on the ground, as under a sleeping bag or in a tent, for protection against moisture.
- haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
- haematoidin — Alternative form of hematoidin.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- halogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of halogenate.
- hammer down — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- hammer pond — an artificial pond for maintaining a head of water at a water mill.
- hand-loomed — handwoven.
- hand-worker — a person who does handwork
- handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
- header bond — a brickwork bond composed entirely of overlapping headers.
- heading dog — a dog that heads off a flock of sheep or a single sheep
- hearing dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
- heldentenor — a tenor having a brilliant, powerful voice suited to singing heroic roles, as in Wagnerian opera.
- hell around — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- helminthoid — shaped like a helminth; vermiform; wormlike.
- hemodynamic — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- hemosiderin — a yellowish-brown protein containing iron, derived chiefly from hemoglobin and found in body tissue and phagocytes, especially as the result of disorders in iron metabolism and the breakdown of red blood cells.
- henry fonda — Henry, 1905–82, U.S. actor.
- heptahedron — a solid figure having seven faces.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- herding dog — one of any of several breeds of dogs used originally for herding livestock, including the Belgian sheepdog, collie, German shepherd, and Old English sheepdog.
- heterodyned — Simple past tense and past participle of heterodyne.
- hexahedrons — Plural form of hexahedron.
- hideousness — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hierodeacon — a monk who is also a deacon.
- hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
- hodgenville — a town in central Kentucky: birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.
- hohenlinden — a village in S Germany, in Bavaria, near Munich: French victory over the Austrians 1800.
- hold in fee — to own; possess
- holding-pen — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- home ground — an area, locality, or subject with which one is intimately familiar: When you see those familiar mountains appear on the horizon, you'll know you are back on home ground. Baseball and football are home ground for this sports-loving community.
- homeodomain — (biochemistry, genetics) A folded protein domain that binds to DNA and has a function in transcription.