11-letter words containing a, d, h, r
- diaphoreses — perspiration, especially when artificially induced.
- diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diaphragmic — Which uses, or which is located in or near, the diaphragm.
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- diarthrosis — any freely movable joint, such as the shoulder and hip joints
- diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichromatic — having or consisting of only two colours
- diphycercal — having a tail or caudal fin with the spinal column extending horizontally to the end of the tail, characteristic of lungfish, several other primitive fishes, and the juvenile stage of modern bony fishes.
- disc harrow — a harrow with sharp-edged slightly concave discs mounted on horizontal shafts and used to cut clods or debris on the surface of the soil or to cover seed after planting
- discharging — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discography — a selective or complete list of phonograph recordings, typically of one composer, performer, or conductor.
- discophoran — a member of the Discophora group
- disenthrall — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- dish aerial — a microwave aerial, used esp in radar, radio telescopes, and satellite broadcasting, consisting of a parabolic reflector
- disharmonic — lacking harmony; disharmonious; discordant.
- disheartens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dishearten.
- dishearting — Present participle of disheart.
- dishonorary — tending to dishonour or disgrace
- dishwashers — Plural form of dishwasher.
- disk harrow — a harrow having a number of sharp-edged, concave disks set at such an angle that as the harrow is drawn along the ground they turn the soil, pulverize it, and destroy weeds.
- diskography — discography.
- dispatchers — Plural form of dispatcher.
- dithyrambic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a dithyramb, or an impassioned oration.
- dittography — reduplication of letters or syllables in writing, printing, etc., usually through error.
- do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
- dog handler — a member of the police force, a security organization, etc, who works in collaboration with a specially trained dog
- dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- door charge — an entrance fee.
- door handle — doorknob.
- downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
- downhearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- doxographer — a person who collects the opinions and conjectures of ancient Greek philosophers
- dr. zhivago — a novel (1958) by Boris Pasternak.
- draft chair — a chair so designed as to fend off drafts from behind, as a wing chair.
- drag anchor — (of a vessel) to move away from its mooring because the anchor has failed to hold
- drag harrow — a type of harrow consisting of heavy beams, often with spikes inserted, used to crush clods, level soil, or prepare seedbeds
- dragon-head — dragonhead.
- draughtiest — Superlative form of draughty.
- draughtsman — a checker, as used in the game of checkers.
- draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
- draw weight — the measured force, in foot-pounds, stored by an archery bow when fully drawn.
- dreadnaught — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drive shaft — a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.
- dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads