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14-letter words containing d, i, c, h

  • finnan haddock — smoked haddock.
  • fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
  • firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
  • fish and chips — fried fish fillets and French fries.
  • fitted kitchen — a kitchen with units that are attached to the wall
  • french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
  • galeopithecoid — of or resembling a flying lemur
  • garda síochána — the police force of the Republic of Ireland
  • geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
  • get with child — to make pregnant
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
  • half-convinced — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
  • handicraftsman — a person skilled in a handicraft; craftsman.
  • handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • haplodiplontic — (biology, of a life cycle) Having multicellular diploid and haploid stages.
  • harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
  • harpsichordist — One who plays the harpsichord.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
  • hedge clippers — clippers or shears used to trim hedges
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • helicopter dad — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
  • helicopter pad — landing area
  • hepatectomised — Alt form hepatectomized.
  • hepatectomized — That has undergone hepatectomy.
  • herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
  • hermaphroditic — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
  • high-card pool — red dog.
  • highly charged — electrical
  • hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
  • hollerith code — a system for coding data into punched cards, in which each horizontal row is assigned a different value, and letters, numbers, or special characters are encoded as combinations of these values in a vertical column.
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • humidification — to make humid.
  • hurricane deck — a deck at the top of a passenger steamer, having a roof supported by light scantlings.
  • hybrid vehicle — A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle using two different forms of power, such as an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, or an electric motor with a battery and fuel cells for energy storage.
  • hydraulic lift — an elevator operated by fluid pressure, especially one used for raising automobiles in service stations and garages.
  • hydraulic pile — a hollow pile through which a jet of water is forced to wash away the ground beneath.
  • hydraulic ramp — a movable ramp operated by pressure transmitted through a pipe by a liquid
  • hydrazoic acid — a colorless, very explosive, poisonous liquid, HN 3 , having a penetrating odor and irritating to the eyes and mucous membranes.
  • hydriodic acid — a colorless corrosive liquid, HI, an aqueous solution of hydrogen iodide.
  • hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
  • hydrocephaloid — resembling hydrocephalus.
  • hydrochlorides — Plural form of hydrochloride.
  • hydrocolloidal — of or relating to a hydrocolloid
  • hydrocortisone — Biochemistry. a steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , of the adrenal cortex, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
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