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10-letter words containing a, h, r, d

  • chessboard — A chessboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing chess.
  • child star — a child who attains celebrity status
  • child-care — having to do with the care of children, specif., of preschool children whose parents are employed
  • childermas — Holy Innocents Day, Dec 28
  • chloridate — to expose to or prepare with a chloride
  • chondromas — Plural form of chondroma.
  • chowkidars — Plural form of chowkidar.
  • chromatids — Plural form of chromatid.
  • chromatoid — Resembling chromatin.
  • churchward — in the direction of the church
  • churchyard — A churchyard is an area of land around a church where dead people are buried.
  • chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
  • clavichord — A clavichord is a musical instrument rather like a small piano. When you press the keys, small pieces of metal come up and hit the strings. Clavichords were especially popular during the eighteenth century.
  • cloth yard — a medieval unit of measure for cloth, fixed at 37 inches by Edward VI of England: also used as a length for longbow arrows
  • coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
  • condylarth — any of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Condylarthra, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a slender body, low-crowned teeth, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
  • copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
  • cotehardie — (in the Middle Ages) a close-fitting outer garment with long sleeves, hip-length for men and full-length for women, often laced or buttoned down the front or back.
  • court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
  • crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
  • crash diet — a strict diet which is intended to produce drastic results in a relatively short period
  • crash dive — a sudden steep dive from the surface by a submarine
  • crash-dive — a rapid dive by a submarine made at a steep angle, especially to avoid attack from a surface vessel or airplane.
  • crash-land — If a pilot crash-lands an aircraft, or if it crash-lands, it lands more quickly and less safely than usual, for example when there is something wrong with the aircraft, and it cannot land normally.
  • crawfished — Simple past tense and past participle of crawfish.
  • crib death — Crib death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
  • crithidial — relating to a developmental stage in protozoan parasites of the trypanosome group, now more commonly referred to as the epimastigote stage
  • dairy herd — a herd of cows producing milk
  • dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
  • dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
  • dashboards — Plural form of dashboard.
  • daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
  • dawn horse — eohippus.
  • dead horse — something that has ceased to be useful or relevant.
  • dead march — a piece of solemn funeral music played to accompany a procession, esp at military funerals
  • dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
  • death care — the products, services, and arrangements having to do with funerals and burials.
  • death rate — The death rate is the number of people per thousand who die in a particular area during a particular period of time.
  • death roll — a list of the people killed in a war or disaster
  • death star — ["Star Wars" film] 1. The AT&T corporate logo, which appears on computers sold by AT&T and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Death Star in the movie. This usage is particularly common among partisans of BSD Unix, who tend to regard the AT&T versions as inferior and AT&T as a bad guy. Copies still circulate of a poster printed by Mt. Xinu showing a starscape with a space fighter labelled 4.2BSD streaking away from a broken AT&T logo wreathed in flames. 2. AT&T's internal magazine, "Focus", uses "death star" to describe an incorrectly done AT&T logo in which the inner circle in the top left is dark instead of light - a frequent result of dark-on-light logo images.
  • death trap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a death trap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
  • deathtraps — Plural form of deathtrap.
  • debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
  • decadrachm — a silver coin of ancient Greece equal to 10 drachmas.
  • decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
  • deck chair — A deck chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deck chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
  • deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
  • decreaseth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrease.
  • deepthroat — To perform fellatio or irrumation on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth.
  • dehydrated — (of organisms) deprived of vital water or moisture
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