11-letter words containing r, h, o, d
- groundcloth — A groundcloth is a piece of waterproof material which you put on the ground to sleep on when you are camping.
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- groundsheet — a waterproof sheet of plastic, canvas, or other durable material spread on the ground, as under a sleeping bag or in a tent, for protection against moisture.
- growth fund — a mutual fund that invests primarily in growth stocks.
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
- hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
- hadrosaurid — (zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.
- haemorrhoid — (UK) alternative spelling of hemorrhoid.
- half dollar — a silver or cupronickel coin of the U.S., equal to 50 cents.
- half-dollar — a silver or cupronickel coin of the U.S., equal to 50 cents.
- half-formed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- 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.
- 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-tailor — to produce (a garment or the like) by individual workmanship.
- hand-worker — a person who does handwork
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
- 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.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- 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 labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- hard liquor — spirits, alcoholic drink
- hard porn's — hard-core pornography.
- hard sector — (storage) An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
- 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-fought — firmly or passionately contested or struggled for
- hardmouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
- harold holt — Harold Edward, 1908–67, Australian political leader: prime minister 1966–67.
- harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.
- hazardously — In a hazardous manner.
- head collar — the part of a bridle that fits round a horse's head
- head doctor — chief medical officer
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- header bond — a brickwork bond composed entirely of overlapping headers.
- hearing dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- 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.
- hemorrhaged — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- hemorrhoids — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)