12-letter words containing nd
- handwringing — a physical expression of concern, distress, or guilt.
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hard landing — Aeronautics. an uncontrolled or rough landing by an aircraft or spacecraft, usually resulting in damage.
- hardstanding — a hard surface on which cars, aircraft etc. may stand
- have in mind — to remember
- heartrending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
- heavy-handed — oppressive; harsh: a heavy-handed master.
- heel-and-toe — noting a pace, as in walking contests, in which the heel of the front foot touches ground before the toes of the rear one leave it.
- helping hand — aid; assistance: to give the destitute a helping hand.
- hendecagonal — (geometry) Having eleven sides an angles; similar to a hendecagon.
- here and now — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- high and dry — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- high and low — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- high command — the leadership or highest authority of a military command or other organization.
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hinterlander — One who lives in the hinterland.
- his and hers — (of paired objects) for a man and woman respectively
- hit and miss — unpredictable, unreliable
- hit-and-miss — sometimes successful or rewarding and sometimes not.
- home and dry — If you say that someone is, in British English home and dry, or in American English home free, you mean that they have been successful or that they are certain to be successful.
- honour-bound — morally obliged
- hook and eye — a two-piece clothes fastener, usually of metal, consisting of a hook that catches onto a loop or bar.
- hope diamond — a sapphire-blue Indian diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, weighing 44.5 carats and supposedly cut from a bigger diamond that was once part of the French crown jewels: now in the Smithsonian Institution.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- horse around — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- hundred days — the period from March 20 to June 28, 1815, between the arrival of Napoleon in Paris, after his escape from Elba, and his abdication after the battle of Waterloo.
- hyperendemic — manifesting a high and persistent occurrence
- hypochondria — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
- i don't mind — I have no preference
- ibizan hound — one of a breed of medium-sized, tall, swift hunting hounds with a short, usually red and white coat, bred originally by the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt but today found chiefly in the Balearic Islands and other areas of Spain.
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- in the round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- in two minds — If you are in two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action. The expression of two minds is also used, especially in American English.
- in-and-outer — a person who is by turns in and out of a particular situation, condition, venture, investment, etc.
- in-bond shop — a duty-free shop
- incandescent — (of light) produced by incandescence.
- incendiaries — Plural form of incendiary.
- incendiarism — the act or practice of an arsonist; malicious burning.
- indebtedness — the state of being indebted.
- indecisively — characterized by indecision, as persons; irresolute; undecided.
- indeclinable — not capable of being declined; having no inflected forms: used especially of a word belonging to a form class most of whose members are declined, as the Latin adjective decem, “ten.”.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- indefeasible — not defeasible; not to be annulled or made void; not forfeitable.
- indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.