15-letter words starting with ha
- harmonic series — a series in which the reciprocals of the terms form an arithmetic progression.
- harun al-rashid — a.d. 764?–809, caliph of Baghdad 786–809: one of the greatest Abbasids, he was made almost a legendary hero in the Arabian Nights.
- harun ar-rashid — a.d. 764?-809; caliph of Baghdad (786-809): given popular fame as a hero of The Arabian Nights
- has had its day — If you say that something has had its day, you mean that the period during which it was most successful or popular has now passed.
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
- haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
- hautes-pyrenees — a department in SW France. 1751 sq. mi. (4535 sq. km). Capital: Tarbes.
- have (down) pat — to know or have memorized thoroughly
- have a crush on — be attracted to: sb
- have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against
- have a go at sb — If someone has a go at you, they criticize you, often in a way that you feel is unfair.
- have a good day — pleasantry
- have a nice day — pleasantry
- have a right to — be entitled to
- have a smack at — to attempt
- have a way with — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- have a whack at — to aim a blow at
- have an edge on — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
- have an eye for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- have got it bad — to be infatuated
- have had enough — be weary, exasperated
- have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
- have itchy feet — to be restless; have a desire to travel
- have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- have nothing on — be naked
- have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
- have the ear of — to be in a position to influence
- have to do with — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- have to lump it — If you say that someone will have to lump it, you mean that they must accept a situation or decision whether they like it or not.
- have words with — to argue angrily with
- haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
- hawaiian guitar — a six-to-eight-string electric guitar, fretted with a piece of metal or bone to produce a whining, glissando sound, played in a horizontal position usually resting on the performer's knees or on a stand, and much used by country music performers.
- hawaiian pidgin — an English-based creole widely spoken in Hawaii.
- hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
- hazard analysis — risk assessment
- hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.