11-letter words containing n, e, d, h
- heathenized — Simple past tense and past participle of heathenize.
- heating pad — a flexible fabric-covered pad containing insulated electrical heating elements for applying heat especially to the body.
- heavenwards — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- heavy-laden — carrying a heavy load; heavily laden: a heavy-laden cart.
- hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
- heedfulness — The state or quality of being heedful.
- heldentenor — a tenor having a brilliant, powerful voice suited to singing heroic roles, as in Wagnerian opera.
- hell around — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- hell-bender — a large salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, of rivers and streams in eastern North America, having a flat, stout body and broad head.
- hellbenders — Plural form of hellbender.
- helminthoid — shaped like a helminth; vermiform; wormlike.
- hem and haw — the utterance or sound of “hem.”.
- hemodynamic — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- hemosiderin — a yellowish-brown protein containing iron, derived chiefly from hemoglobin and found in body tissue and phagocytes, especially as the result of disorders in iron metabolism and the breakdown of red blood cells.
- henry fonda — Henry, 1905–82, U.S. actor.
- heparinized — Simple past tense and past participle of heparinize.
- heptahedron — a solid figure having seven faces.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- herb garden — where herbs are grown
- herding dog — one of any of several breeds of dogs used originally for herding livestock, including the Belgian sheepdog, collie, German shepherd, and Old English sheepdog.
- hereinunder — In and under this (of a clause to follow later in a document, etc.).
- heterodyned — Simple past tense and past participle of heterodyne.
- hexahedrons — Plural form of hexahedron.
- 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.
- hidden hand — an unknown force or influence believed to be the cause of certain, often unfortunate, events
- hideousness — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hierodeacon — a monk who is also a deacon.
- high-handed — condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary: He has a highhanded manner.
- high-minded — having or showing high, exalted principles or feelings.
- high-necked — (of a garment) high at the neck.
- highbinders — Plural form of highbinder.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
- hinderingly — in a hindering manner, so as to hinder or obstruct
- hinderlands — the buttocks
- hinderlings — the buttocks or bottom
- hindquarter — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
- 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.
- hodgenville — a town in central Kentucky: birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.
- hohenlinden — a village in S Germany, in Bavaria, near Munich: French victory over the Austrians 1800.
- hold in fee — to own; possess
- holding-pen — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- home ground — an area, locality, or subject with which one is intimately familiar: When you see those familiar mountains appear on the horizon, you'll know you are back on home ground. Baseball and football are home ground for this sports-loving community.
- homeodomain — (biochemistry, genetics) A folded protein domain that binds to DNA and has a function in transcription.
- homogenated — Homogenized.
- homogenised — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- homogenized — Simple past tense and past participle of homogenize.