12-letter words containing i, d, e, a, h
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- fountainhead — a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.
- freight yard — a place on a rail network where freight trains are made up or broken up
- french drain — a drainage trench filled to ground level with fragments of brick, rock, etc.
- french india — the five small former French territories in India, including Chandernagor, Karikal, Pondicherry, and Yanaon on the E coast, and Mahé on the W coast.
- get the idea — understand
- giddy-headed — giddy (def 1).
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- guanethidine — a potent adrenergic neuron blocking agent, C 10 H 22 N 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- habilimented — Clothed.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- haemorrhoids — Plural form of haemorrhoid.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- hairdressers — Plural form of hairdresser.
- hairdressing — the act or process of cutting, combing out, doing up, or styling hair.
- hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
- hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
- hammer drill — a rock drill operated by compressed air in which the boring bit is not attached to the reciprocating piston
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- hand setting — Also called French telephone. a telephone having a mouthpiece and earpiece mounted at opposite ends of a handle.
- hand-deliver — to deliver in person or by messenger.
- hand-painted — painted by a person rather than a machine
- hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
- hand-selling — a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
- hand-written — to write (something) by hand.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
- handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
- handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
- handstitched — Stitched by hand.
- happy medium — a course of action or condition that is between two extremes: Our climate is a happy medium between hot and cold.
- hard feeling — resentment; ill will
- hard science — any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and experiments.
- hard-wearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- hare-brained — giddy; reckless.
- harlequinade — a pantomime, farce, or similar play in which Harlequin plays the principal part.
- harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
- harrison red — a pigment consisting of a paratoluidine toner, characterized by its brilliant red color and tendency to bleed.
- have in mind — to remember
- have it good — to be in comfortable circumstances
- have it made — simple past tense and past participle of make1 .
- head station — the main buildings on a large sheep or cattle farm
- head-hunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- headkerchief — A kerchief worn on the head.