Phrase Hound found 361 phrases and 75 compound words that contain hands. The most common are listed below. Open hands in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 361
- hands downwithout much effort; easily
- hands upPut your hands up (if you wish to participate).
- shake handsTo grasp another person's hands as an expression of greeting, farewell, agreement, etc.
- hands offRefrain from touching; refrain from initiating any physical contact.
- hands-freeNot requiring one's hands to use.
- show of handsA vote in which people raise a hand in order to state their agreement with something.
- Poker hands
- all handsAll of the passengers and crew of a ship.
- in good handsUnder the guidance of a capable being.
- hold handsOf two or more people, to clasp each other's hands.
- join handsTo hold hands (to clasp each other's hands).
- shaking handspresent participle and gerund of shake hands
- laying on of handsThe practice of using touch to communicate spiritual energy from one person to another, especially as an act of healing.
- bare handsplural of bare hand: To field the ball without one's glove in one's hand.
- Two Hands
- Holding hands
- hands of Godplural of hand of God: The sovereignty, superintendence, or agency of God over events in people's lives and throughout history.
- little handsplural of little hand: Synonym of hour hand (on a clock face).
- Cross HandsA village in Llannon community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN5612).
- Good-hands
- hands of gloryplural of hand of glory: A charm made from the hand of a man executed by hanging, supposed to be able to unlock doors, render other people motionless, etc.
- Hands Together
- in safe handsIn the possession of, or protected by, someone who can be trusted.
- change handsTo become the property of someone else; to be bought or sold.
- wash one's handsUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wash, one's, hands.
Compound words 75
- handsfreeAlternative form of hands-free: Not requiring one's hands to use.
- handsetsplural of handset: The part of a landline telephone containing both receiver and transmitter (and sometimes dial), held in the hand.
- HandsworthA suburb in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4186).
- Marchandsplural of Marchand: A surname from French.
- handsomercomparative form of handsome: more handsome
- handsawsplural of handsaw: A saw small enough to be used by one hand.
- stagehandsplural of stagehand: A person who works behind the scenes at a theatre or in other theatrical media.
- handspokeAlternative form of handspike: A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
- backhandsplural of backhand: A stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
- farmhandsplural of farmhand: A person who works on a farm, especially a hired hand.