15-letter words containing nd
- high-and-mighty — haughty; arrogant.
- high-dependency — needing or providing a more than usually high level of healthcare
- high-handedness — condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary: He has a highhanded manner.
- highland cattle — a breed of cattle with shaggy hair, usually reddish-brown in colour, and long horns
- hindenburg line — a line of elaborate fortifications established by the German army in World War I, near the French-Belgian border, from Lille SE to Metz.
- hold one's hand — to stop or postpone a planned action or punishment
- hole-and-corner — secretive; clandestine; furtive: The political situation was full of hole-and-corner intrigue.
- holyhead island — former name of Holy Island (def 2).
- hook and ladder — a fire engine, usually a tractor-trailer, fitted with long, extensible ladders and other equipment.
- hook of holland — a cape and the harbor it forms in the SW Netherlands.
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
- human condition — mortality
- hundred flowers — the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”.
- hundred's place — hundred (def 8).
- hypochondriacal — Also, hypochondriacal, H05/H0509000 hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-kuh l, ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə kəl. Psychiatry. pertaining to or suffering from hypochondria, an excessive preoccupation with and worry about one's health: The comedy is aimed at the hypochondriac demographic. produced by hypochondria: Hypochondriac feelings overwhelmed her.
- hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
- hypochondriasis — 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.
- ill-conditioned — in a surly or bad mood, state, etc.
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- in dependent of — not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself: an independent thinker.
- in honour bound — under a moral obligation
- in no condition — If you say that someone is in no condition to do something, you mean that they are too ill, upset, or drunk to do it.
- in the hands of — under the control of
- in-and-out bond — a stonework or brickwork bond having headers and stretchers alternating vertically.
- in-visible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
- incendiary bomb — a bomb that is designed to start fires
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- indefectibility — The quality of being indefectible.
- indefensibility — The quality or state of not being defensible.
- indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
- indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
- independentista — (especially in Latin America) a person who supports or works toward political independence, especially one supporting radical changes in an existing government or from an existing system of government.
- indeterminately — not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.
- indetermination — the quality or condition of being indeterminate.
- indeterministic — the doctrine that human actions, though influenced somewhat by preexisting psychological and other conditions, are not entirely governed by them but retain a certain freedom and spontaneity.
- indian elephant — See under elephant.
- indian hawthorn — a southern Chinese evergreen shrub, Raphiolepis indica, of the rose family, having shiny, leathery leaves and pinkish-white flowers in loose clusters.
- indian licorice — rosary pea.
- indian mulberry — a small tree, Morinda citrifolia, of the madder family, found from India to Australasia, having shiny leaves, white flowers, and fleshy, yellowish fruit, yielding red and yellow dyes.
- indicator board — a device that shows information, such as the arrival and departure times of trains or planes
- indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
- indigestibility — The state of being indigestible.
- indirect demand — the secondary demand for labour, raw materials, premises etc which arises from the direct demand for goods
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indirect object — a word or group of words representing the person or thing with reference to which the action of a verb is performed, in English generally coming between the verb and the direct object and paraphrasable as the object of a preposition, usually to or for, following the direct object, as the boy in He gave the boy a book.
- indirect speech — Indirect speech is speech which tells you what someone said, but does not use the person's actual words: for example, 'They said you didn't like it', 'I asked him what his plans were', and 'Citizens complained about the smoke'.
- indisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or corrected by discipline
- indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
- indisputability — The property of being indisputable.