right-handed

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: right-hand=ed

CIDE DICTIONARY

right-handed, a. 

•  Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.  [1913 Webster]
•  Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front; -- said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction.  [1913 Webster]
•  Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria.  [1913 Webster]

Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that the screw advances away from the observer when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

right-handed, adj.
1 using the right hand by preference as more serviceable than the left.
2 (of a tool etc.) made to be used with the right hand.
3 (of a blow) struck with the right hand.
4 a turning to the right; towards the right. b (of a screw) advanced by turning to the right (clockwise).

Derivative

right-handedly adv. right-handedness n.

ROGET THESAURUS

right-handed

Dextrality

N dextrality, right, right hand, dexter, offside, starboard, dextral, right-handed, dexter, dextrorsal, dextrorse, ambidextral, ambidextrous, dextro-, dextrad, dextrally.