13-letter words containing h, u, d
- 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.
- dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
- dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
- dual-attached — The form of FDDI interface where a device is connected to both FDDI token-passing rings, so that uninterrupted operation continues in the event of a failure of either of the rings. All connections to the main FDDI rings are dual-attached. Typically, a small number of critical infrastructure devices such as routers and concentrators are dual-attached, whereas host computers are normally single-attached or dual-homed to a router or concentrator. For example, a ring could be formed between a single router and two concentrators (all dual-attached) then all other components that need to be fault-tolerant (typically file servers) can be dual-homed to both concentrators.
- duc d'enghien — Duc [dyk] /dük/ (Show IPA), (Louis Antoine Henry de Bourbon-Condé) 1772–1804, French prince: executed by Napoleon I.
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- 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 auction — a method of auction consisting in the offer of a property at a price above the actual value and then at gradually reduced prices until a buyer is found.
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- 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
- dzibilchaltun — a large, ancient Mayan ceremonial and commercial center near Mérida, Mexico, founded perhaps as early as 3000 b.c. and in continuous use until the 16th century.
- 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
- 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]>.
- exhaustipated — Too tired to care about anything.
- fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
- fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
- full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
- gheorghiu-dej — Gheorghe [gyawr-ge] /ˈgyɔr gɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–65, Romanian statesman: premier 1952–55; president of the state council 1961–65.
- go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
- good-humoured — having or showing a pleasant, amiable mood: a good-humored man; a good-humored remark.
- goodhumoredly — In a good-humored manner.
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- granddaughter — a daughter of one's son or daughter.
- ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
- groundhog day — February 2, in most parts of the U.S., the day on which, according to legend, the groundhog first emerges from hibernation. If it is a sunny day and the groundhog sees its shadow, six more weeks of wintry weather are predicted.
- gunshot wound — bullet injury caused by a firearm
- h and d curve — characteristic curve.
- haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
- half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
- hand-to-mouth — offering or providing the barest livelihood, sustenance, or support; meager; precarious: a hand-to-mouth existence.
- hanging judge — sb who sentences criminals to execution
- hard currency — money that is backed by gold reserves and is readily convertible into foreign currencies.
- hard shoulder — The hard shoulder is the area at the side of a motorway or other road where you are allowed to stop if your car breaks down.
- hard-featured — having stern, harsh, or unattractive features.
- hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
- harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
- harold burton — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- hazardousness — The condition of being hazardous.
- headquartered — to situate in headquarters.
- herd immunity — the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.
- here document — (operating system) Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
- hexadactylous — hexadactylic
- high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
- high-sounding — having an impressive or pretentious sound; grand: the high-sounding titles of minor officials.
- hippuric acid — a crystalline solid excreted in the urine of mammals. Formula: C9H9NO3