11-letter words containing i, d, e, a, s
- glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
- gormandizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gormandize.
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- gravidities — Plural form of gravidity.
- guide vanes — fixed aerofoils that direct air, gas, or water into the moving blades of a turbine or into or around bends in ducts with minimum loss of energy
- gum disease — dental infection
- hairdresser — a person who arranges or cuts hair.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- head-strict — (theory) A head-strict function will not necessarily evaluate every cons cell of its (list) argument, but whenever it does evaluate a cons cell it will also evaluate the element in the head of that cell. An example of a head-strict function is beforeZero :: [Int] -> [Int] beforeZero [] = [] beforeZero (0:xs) = [] beforeZero (x:xs) = x : beforeZero xs which returns a list up to the first zero. This pattern of evaluation is important because it is common in functions which operate on a list of inputs. See also tail-strict, hyperstrict.
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- heat island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
- heat shield — a coating or structure that surrounds part of the nose cone or other vulnerable surfaces of a spacecraft and, by heat absorption or ablation, protects them from excessive heating during reentry.
- heat-island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
- hinderlands — the buttocks
- hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
- his-and-her — denoting two matching or identical items, one intended for use by a male and the other by a female: his-and-her towels in the bathroom; his-and-her sweatshirts.
- historiated — (especially of initial letters on an illuminated manuscript) decorated with animals, flowers, or other designs that have a narrative or symbolic purpose.
- hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- horseradish — a cultivated plant, Armoracia rusticana, of the mustard family, having small, white flowers.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- ida b wells — Henry, 1805–78, U.S. businessman: pioneered in banking, stagecoach services, and express shipping.
- ideopraxist — a person who is impelled to carry out an idea
- idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
- ill-advised — acting or done without due consideration; imprudent: an ill-advised remark.
- ill-starred — doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky: an ill-starred enterprise.
- illegalised — to make illegal: They even wanted to illegalize smoking.
- illustrated — containing pictures, drawings, and other illustrations: an illustrated book.
- immediacies — Plural form of immediacy.
- immediatism — a policy for the immediate abolition of slavery.
- immediatist — a policy for the immediate abolition of slavery.
- immiserated — to make miserable.
- imparadised — Simple past tense and past participle of imparadise.