11-letter words containing l, i, d, e, h, a
- fiddleheads — Plural form of fiddlehead.
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
- habilitated — Simple past tense and past participle of habilitate.
- haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-filled — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- haloperidol — a major antipsychotic agent, C 21 H 23 ClFNO 2 , used in the management of schizophrenia, severe anxiety, and other behavioral disorders.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
- hang glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hang-glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- 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.
- hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- hereditable — heritable.
- hexadecimal — Also, hex. of or relating to a numbering system that uses 16 as the radix, employing the numerals 0 through 9 and representing digits greater than 9 with the letters A through F.
- hexidecimal — (spelling) Mis-spelling of "hexadecimal".
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderlands — the buttocks
- hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
- hiv-related — related to the HIV virus
- holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hydralazine — a white crystalline powder, C 8 H 8 N 4 , that dilates blood vessels and is used in the treatment of hypertension.
- hyperlydian — relating to the highest scale or mode in ancient Greek music
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- 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-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- laddishness — (British) Laddish attitudes and behaviour; laddism.
- lanthanides — Plural form of lanthanide.
- lead weight — a weight made of lead
- leader-ship — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- leaderships — Plural form of leadership.
- lethargized — Simple past tense and past participle of lethargize.
- liddel hart — Sir Basil (Henry) 1895–1970, English military authority and writer.
- light bread — white bread.