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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 wellsHenry, 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.
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