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11-letter words containing s, a, d, h, r

  • dysrhythmia — a disturbance of rhythm, as of speech or of brain waves recorded by an electroencephalograph.
  • far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
  • featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
  • figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
  • fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
  • fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
  • 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.
  • flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
  • flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
  • food shares — investment shares in food companies
  • foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
  • fresh-faced — having a healthy or ruddy appearance
  • garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
  • gatecrashed — Simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash.
  • goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
  • grade sheet — a piece of paper on which a student's grades are recorded
  • groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
  • guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
  • haberdasher — a retail dealer in men's furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.
  • hadrosaurid — (zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.
  • haggardness — having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn: the haggard faces of the tired troops.
  • hairdresser — a person who arranges or cuts hair.
  • halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
  • halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
  • hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
  • hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
  • handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
  • handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
  • handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
  • handsprings — Plural form of handspring.
  • handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
  • 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 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-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
  • hardpressed — Subject to difficulty in accomplishing or making progress.
  • hardscaping — Hardscape.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
  • hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
  • hazardously — In a hazardous manner.
  • head-strict — (theory)   A head-strict function will not necessarily evaluate every cons cell of its (list) argument, but whenever it does evaluate a cons cell it will also evaluate the element in the head of that cell. An example of a head-strict function is beforeZero :: [Int] -> [Int] beforeZero [] = [] beforeZero (0:xs) = [] beforeZero (x:xs) = x : beforeZero xs which returns a list up to the first zero. This pattern of evaluation is important because it is common in functions which operate on a list of inputs. See also tail-strict, hyperstrict.
  • headbangers — Plural form of headbanger.
  • headdresses — Plural form of headdress.
  • headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
  • headmasters — Plural form of headmaster.
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