14-letter words containing ard
- hardshell clam — quahog.
- hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
- hardware store — shop selling DIY or home-improvement supplies
- hardy ageratum — the mistflower.
- have hard ears — to be stubbornly disobedient
- heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
- high-card pool — red dog.
- homeward bound — going home
- hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
- house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
- hubbard squash — a variety of winter squash having a green or yellow skin and yellow flesh.
- in this regard — on this point
- inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
- indian mustard — leaf mustard.
- inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
- intracardially — in an intracardial manner
- inward-looking — person
- isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
- jardin anglais — a landscape garden having winding paths and irregular planting.
- kierkegaardian — of, relating to, or resembling the philosophy or religious views of Kierkegaard.
- kindergardener — Misspelling of kindergartner.
- kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
- knacker's yard — a slaughterhouse for horses
- know backwards — to understand completely
- leland hayward — Leland, 1902–71, U.S. theatrical producer.
- leopard lizard — any long-tailed lizard of the genus Gambelia, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having the body marked with spots and bars of dark or light brown or black.
- leopard's-bane — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, of Europe and Asia, having alternate, usually clasping leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- little richard — (Richard Wayne Penniman) born 1932, U.S. rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist.
- lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
- mansard (roof) — a roof with two slopes on each of the four sides, the lower steeper than the upper
- marble orchard — cemetery.
- martin du gard — Roger [raw-zhey] /rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1958, French novelist: Nobel prize 1937.
- maternity ward — hospital room for new mothers
- matteo bojardo — Matteo Maria [mah-tey-oh muh-ree-uh;; Italian maht-te-aw mah-ree-ah] /mɑˈteɪ oʊ məˈri ə;; Italian mɑtˈtɛ ɔ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), Boiardo, Matteo Maria.
- mother hubbard — a full, loose gown, usually fitted at the shoulders, worn by women.
- moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
- mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
- mustard powder — Mustard powder is a yellow powder. You add hot water to it in order to make mustard.
- myocardiograph — an instrument for recording the movements of the heart.
- myocardiopathy — (pathology) Any disease of the myocardium.
- national guard — state military forces, in part equipped, trained, and quartered by the U.S. government, and paid by the U.S. government, that become an active component of the army when called into federal service by the president in civil emergencies. Compare militia (def 2).
- naval dockyard — a place where a Navy's ships are kept
- noncardiogenic — Not cardiogenic.
- northeastwards — northeastward.
- northwestwards — northwestward.
- on one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- orchard oriole — a North American oriole, Icterus spurius, the male of which is chestnut and black.
- outboard motor — a portable gasoline engine with propeller and tiller, clamped on the stern of a boat.
- pardonableness — the quality or state of being pardonable