11-letter words containing s, h, a, d, o
- 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 porn's — hard-core pornography.
- hard sector — (storage) An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
- 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.
- hash coding — (programming, algorithm) (Or "hashing") A scheme for providing rapid access to data items which are distinguished by some key. Each data item to be stored is associated with a key, e.g. the name of a person. A hash function is applied to the item's key and the resulting hash value is used as an index to select one of a number of "hash buckets" in a hash table. The table contains pointers to the original items. If, when adding a new item, the hash table already has an entry at the indicated location then that entry's key must be compared with the given key to see if it is the same. If two items' keys hash to the same value (a "hash collision") then some alternative location is used (e.g. the next free location cyclically following the indicated one). For best performance, the table size and hash function must be tailored to the number of entries and range of keys to be used. The hash function usually depends on the table size so if the table needs to be enlarged it must usually be completely rebuilt. When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. See also: btree, checksum, CRC, pseudorandom number, random, random number, soundex.
- hazardously — In a hazardous manner.
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- hexahedrons — Plural form of hexahedron.
- hindoostani — a standard language and lingua franca of northern India based on a dialect of Western Hindi spoken around Delhi. Abbreviation: Hind. Compare Hindi (def 2), Urdu.
- hippodamist — a horse-tamer
- hippodamous — horse-taming
- historiated — (especially of initial letters on an illuminated manuscript) decorated with animals, flowers, or other designs that have a narrative or symbolic purpose.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- holy island — Also called Lindisfarne. an island off the E coast of Northumberland, England. 3 miles (4.8 km) long.
- homesteaded — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- homesteader — the owner or holder of a homestead.
- hooded seal — a large seal, Cystophora cristata, the male of which has a large, distensible, hoodlike sac on the head.
- horn-spread — (of a horned creature) the distance between the outermost tips of the horns.
- horse guard — a black and yellow sand wasp, Bembix carolina, of the southern U.S., preying on flies that gather around horses and cattle.
- horse-drawn — A horse-drawn carriage, cart, or other vehicle is one that is pulled by one or more horses.
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
- horse-trade — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- horseradish — a cultivated plant, Armoracia rusticana, of the mustard family, having small, white flowers.
- horsetrader — (literally) A person who buys and sells horses, especially one who makes such transactions in a clever or skillful manner.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
- hoverboards — Plural form of hoverboard.
- howard moss — Howard, 1922–1987, U.S. poet, editor, and playwright.
- hudson seal — muskrat fur that has been plucked and dyed to give the appearance of seal.
- hydragogues — Plural form of hydragogue.
- hydrocorals — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
- hydrogenase — an enzyme in certain microorganisms that speeds up the reversible oxidation of hydrogen
- hydrolysate — any compound formed by hydrolysis.
- hydromedusa — the medusa form of a hydrozoan.
- hydroplanes — Plural form of hydroplane.
- hydrostatic — of or relating to hydrostatics.
- hydroxylase — any enzyme that catalyzes the introduction of a hydroxyl group into a substance.
- hypospadias — (medicine) A birth defect of the male urethra that involves an abnormally placed urinary meatus.
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- idaho falls — a city in E Idaho.
- isodiaphere — one of two or more nuclides in which the difference between the number of neutrons and the number of protons is the same
- jealoushood — jealousy
- landholders — Plural form of landholder.
- lanthanoids — Plural form of lanthanoid.
- leaseholder — a tenant under a lease.
- lethal dose — the amount of a drug or other agent that if administered to an animal or human will prove fatal