12-letter words containing n, e, d, h
- grandfathers — Plural form of grandfather.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
- greenlighted — to give permission to proceed; authorize: The renovation project was green-lighted by the board of directors.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- 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.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- 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.
- half a dozen — six
- half cadence — a cadence ending with dominant harmony.
- half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
- 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 baggage — the suitcases, bags, etc, that you take with you onto an aeroplane when you travel, as opposed to those bags that are put in the aeroplane's hold
- hand grenade — a grenade or explosive shell that is thrown by hand and exploded either by impact or by means of a fuze.
- hand leather — a piece of leather wrapped around the hand of a shoemaker in order to protect it from being cut while pulling thread
- hand luggage — carry-on baggage
- 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-grenade — a grenade or explosive shell that is thrown by hand and exploded either by impact or by means of a fuze.
- hand-launder — hand-wash.
- hand-me-down — an article of clothing passed on to another person after being used, outgrown, etc.: The younger children wore the hand-me-downs of the older ones.
- 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.
- handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
- 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.
- handsbreadth — A small distance.
- handsomeness — The quality of being handsome.
- handstitched — Stitched by hand.
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- 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.
- 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 need to — to be compelled or required to; must