11-letter words containing r, h, a, d
- 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.
- halfhearted — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
- haloperidol — a major antipsychotic agent, C 21 H 23 ClFNO 2 , used in the management of schizophrenia, severe anxiety, and other behavioral disorders.
- hammer down — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- hammer pond — an artificial pond for maintaining a head of water at a water mill.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hand around — If you hand around or hand round something such as food, you pass it from one person to another in a group.
- hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
- hand-letter — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- hand-reared — (of an animal or bird) kept and looked after by a person, rather than by its mother, when young
- hand-tailor — to produce (a garment or the like) by individual workmanship.
- hand-worker — a person who does handwork
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- handbreadth — a unit of linear measure from 2½ to 4 inches (6.4 to 10 cm).
- handcrafted — handicraft.
- handcrafter — One who handcrafts or engages in handcraft or handicraft.
- handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- handrailing — Handrail.
- handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
- handsprings — Plural form of handspring.
- handwringer — a person who wrings the hands often as a display of worry or upset
- handwriting — writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
- handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
- handwrought — formed or shaped by hand, as metal objects.
- handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
- hang around — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- 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.
- haphazardly — in a haphazard manner; at random.
- haphazardry — haphazard character, state, or order; fortuity.
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard by sth — If one thing is hard by another, it is very close to it.
- hard cheese — an unpleasant, difficult, or adverse situation: It's hard cheese for the unskilled worker these days.
- hard dinkum — hard work; a difficult task.
- hard ground — an etching ground applied to the surface of a plate held over a small flame and spread by a dabber or brayer. Compare soft ground (def 1).
- hard hitter — a bowler hat
- hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- hard launch — the general or official launch, esp of a website, after which all features, products, and services are understood to be available
- hard liquor — spirits, alcoholic drink
- hard palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- hard porn's — hard-core pornography.
- hard rubber — rubber vulcanized with a large amount of sulfur, usually 25–35 percent, to render it stiff and comparatively inflexible.
- hard sector — (storage) An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hard-bodied — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- hard-coated — having a coarsely textured coat, as a dog.
- hard-earned — A hard-earned victory or hard-earned cash is a victory or money that someone deserves because they have worked hard for it.