9-letter words containing hand
- aforehand — beforehand; in advance
- backhands — Plural form of backhand.
- chandelle — an abrupt climbing turn almost to the point of stalling, in which an aircraft's momentum is used to increase its rate of climb
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.
- chandlery — the business, warehouse, or merchandise of a chandler
- club hand — a deformity of the hand, analogous to club foot
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- dead hand — You can refer to the dead hand of a particular thing when that thing has a bad or depressing influence on a particular situation.
- deck hand — a seaman assigned various duties, such as mooring and cargo handling, on the deck of a ship
- dockhands — Plural form of dockhand.
- farm hand — a person who works on a farm, especially a hired worker; hired hand.
- farmhands — Plural form of farmhand.
- firsthand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
- forehands — Plural form of forehand.
- free hand — unrestricted freedom or authority: They gave the decorator a free hand.
- free-hand — unrestricted freedom or authority: They gave the decorator a free hand.
- glad hand — greet insincerely
- glad-hand — to greet warmly.
- greenhand — an inexperienced person, esp a sailor
- hand back — return, give back
- hand bell — a small handheld bell, especially as part of a tuned set having different notes or pitches and played by a group.
- hand down — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand hack — (jargon) 1. (Or "hand cruft") To Translate a hot spot of a program in a HLL into assembly language by hand, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon. See tune, bum. 2. More generally, manual construction or patching of data sets that would normally be generated by a translation utility and interpreted by another program, and aren't really designed to be read or modified by humans.
- hand horn — a forerunner of the modern French horn, developed in Germany during the mid-17th century.
- hand lens — a magnifying glass designed to be held in the hand.
- hand over — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand tool — handheld instrument
- hand-feed — Agriculture. to feed (animals) with apportioned amounts at regular intervals. Compare self-feed.
- hand-held — held in the hand or hands: a handheld torch.
- hand-knit — to knit by hand.
- hand-list — a list containing some rough or brief details
- hand-made — made by hand, rather than by machine: the luxury of handmade shoes.
- hand-pick — to pick by hand.
- hand-play — the practice of fighting with fists
- hand-rear — (of a person) to keep and look after (a young animal or bird) in place of its mother, until it is old enough to be used for work or food, or until it can look after itself
- hand-ride — to ride (a horse) in a race without using a whip or spurs, urging it on with only the hands.
- hand-roll — (jargon) (From mainstream slang "hand-rolled cigarette" in opposition to "ready-made") To perform a normally automated software installation or configuration process by hand; implies that the normal process failed due to bugs or was defeated by something exceptional in the local environment. "The worst thing about being a gateway between four different nets is having to hand-roll a new sendmail configuration every time any of them upgrades."
- hand-sewn — sewn by hand.
- hand-tool — tool (defs 8, 9).
- hand-walk — to carry (a memorandum, check, or other document) from one person or office to another so as to assure prompt delivery.
- hand-wash — to launder by hand rather than by washing machine: to hand-wash socks in a hotel-room sink.
- handballs — Plural form of handball.
- handbasin — Washbasin.
- handbells — Plural form of handbell.
- handbills — Plural form of handbill.
- handblown — (of glassware) shaped by means of a handheld blowpipe: handblown crystal.
- handbooks — Plural form of handbook.
- handbound — (of books) bound by hand.
- handbrake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- handcarry — to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons: The ambassador hand-carried a message from the president.
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