16-letter words containing t, e, a, d
- hair conditioner — a substance used, often after shampooing, to detangle and improve the condition of the hair. Like shampoo, it is applied to wet hair and then rinsed out after applying.
- hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
- hamming distance — (data) The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
- hard times token — any of a series of U.S. copper tokens, issued 1834–41, bearing a political inscription or advertising message and serving as currency during coin shortages.
- have a good time — enjoy yourself, have fun
- have a hard time — experience difficulties
- have a word with — discuss
- have in the wind — to be in the act of following (quarry) by scent
- have the decency — If you say that someone did not have the decency to do something, you are criticizing them because there was a particular action which they did not do but which you believe they ought to have done.
- have the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- have the edge on — to have a slight advantage or superiority over
- have the wood on — to have an advantage over
- hay-scented fern — a fern, Dennstaedtia punctilobula, of eastern North America, having brittle, yellow-green fronds.
- head arrangement — a roughly outlined musical arrangement that is played from memory and is often learned by ear.
- head post office — the main post office in a town
- headed notepaper — notepaper headed with the name and address of a person or organization
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- headmistressship — (rare) Alternative form of headmistress-ship.
- health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
- health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
- heavy with child — pregnant
- hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
- hernando de soto — Hernando [her-nan-doh;; Spanish er-nahn-daw] /hərˈnæn doʊ;; Spanish ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), or Fernando [fer-nan-doh;; Spanish fer-nahn-daw] /fərˈnæn doʊ;; Spanish fɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), c1500–42, Spanish soldier and explorer in America.
- heroin addiction — addiction to the drug heroin
- heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- home health aide — a worker, usually trained and state-certified, who provides care for elderly, sick, or disabled people in their own home.
- horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
- horseradish tree — a tropical tree, Moringa pterygosperma, having fragrant white flowers and seeds yielding a commercially useful oil.
- hot and bothered — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- hot-cathode tube — thermionic tube.
- hybrid perpetual — a type of cultivated rose bred from varieties having vigorous growth and more or less recurrent bloom.
- hydrated alumina — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH) 3 or Al 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, obtained chiefly from bauxite: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, and printing inks, in dyeing, and in medicine as an antacid and in the treatment of ulcers.
- hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
- hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
- hydrostatic head — The hydrostatic head is the vertical height of a column of fluid.
- icositetrahedron — a solid figure having 24 faces.
- immediate family — parents, siblings, children
- immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- implied warranty — a warranty not stated explicitly by the seller of merchandise or real property but presumed for reasons of commercial or legal custom (distinguished from express warranty).
- in ones and twos — You can use in ones and twos to indicate that people do things or something happens gradually and in small groups.
- in quadruplicate — in four identical copies
- in the ascendant — If someone or something is in the ascendant, they have or are getting more power, influence, or popularity than other people or things.
- in the shadow of — very close to; verging upon
- incidental music — music intended primarily to point up or accompany parts of the action of a play or to serve as transitional material between scenes.
- incontinence pad — an absorbent pad used by incontinent people
- incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
- indecent assault — a sexual offense, other than rape, committed by one person against another.
- indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.