9-letter words containing a, d, e, t, h
- death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
- death tax — a tax on money or property that a person inherits
- deathbeds — Plural form of deathbed.
- deathbell — Alternative form of death bell.
- deathblow — a thing or event that destroys life or hope, esp suddenly
- deathless — immortal, esp because of greatness; everlasting
- deathlike — resembling or suggestive of death
- deathsman — an executioner
- deathtrap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a deathtrap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
- deathward — having an inclination or disposition towards death
- decastich — a poem that consists of ten lines
- decathect — to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- declareth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'declare'.
- dehydrate — When something such as food is dehydrated, all the water is removed from it, often in order to preserve it.
- departeth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'depart'.
- detaching — Present participle of detach.
- diathermy — local heating of the body tissues with an electric current for medical or surgical purposes
- diatheses — Plural form of diathesis.
- diathesis — a hereditary or acquired susceptibility of the body to one or more diseases
- diathetic — Pathology. a constitutional predisposition or tendency, as to a particular disease or other abnormal state of the body or mind.
- dihydrate — a hydrate that contains two molecules of water, as potassium sulfite, K 2 SO 3 ⋅2H 2 O.
- dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- dratchell — a scruffy woman; a slut; a drab
- draughted — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughter — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- drawsheet — a narrow sheet, often used on hospital beds, placed under a patient's buttocks and often over a rubber sheet, that can easily be removed if soiled.
- duckwheat — India wheat.
- dust head — a habitual user of angel dust.
- dysthesia — an unusual or disagreeable feeling in or on the body compared to crawling or burning
- earth day — environmental awareness day
- earth-god — a god of fertility and vegetation.
- earthward — Also, earthwards. toward the earth.
- enchanted — Simple past tense and past participle of enchant.
- enswathed — Simple past tense and past participle of enswathe.
- enthraled — (rare) Simple past tense and past participle of enthral.
- epitaphed — Simple past tense and past participle of epitaph.
- escheated — Simple past tense and past participle of escheat.
- ethmoidal — Ethmoid.
- ethylated — Simple past tense and past participle of ethylate.
- exhausted — Drained of one's physical or mental resources; very tired.
- fatheaded — foolish; fatuous; witless.
- feathered — clothed, covered, or provided with feathers, as a bird or an arrow.
- feldspath — Alternative form of feldspar.
- flat head — a flat screw head.
- flatheads — Plural form of flathead.
- flinthead — the wood stork, Mycteria americana.
- fraughted — Simple past tense and past participle of fraught.
- gateshead — a metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, in NE England: seaport on the Tyne River opposite Newcastle.
- get ahead — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.