13-letter words containing a, n, h, e, d
- child rearing — the activity of rearing children
- child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
- childrenswear — clothing for children
- chiloe island — an island administered by Chile, off the W coast of South America in the Pacific Ocean: timber. Pop: 154 775 (2002, Chiloé province). Area: 8394 sq km (3240 sq miles)
- churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
- close at hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close-at-hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- come in handy — If something comes in handy, it is useful in a particular situation.
- commandership — a person who commands.
- core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
- cough and die — (jargon) barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
- cyberchondria — unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites
- cylinder head — the detachable metal casting that fits onto the top of a cylinder block. In an engine it contains part of the combustion chamber and in an overhead-valve four-stroke engine it houses the valves and their operating mechanisms
- damson cheese — thick damson jam
- dance hostess — a woman who hosts a ball at her house
- dance therapy — the use of dance or movement for therapeutic purposes; a form of therapy in which people are encouraged to express their feelings through dance or movement.
- dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
- das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- daytona beach — a city in NE Florida, on the Atlantic: a resort with a beach of hard white sand, used since 1903 for motor speed trials. Pop: 64 581 (2003 est)
- death benefit — the benefit payable if the holder of a life insurance policy dies before the policy matures
- death penalty — The death penalty is the punishment of death used in some countries for people who have committed very serious crimes.
- death warrant — A death warrant is an official document which orders that someone is to be executed as a punishment for a crime.
- death-dealing — fatal; lethal
- deathlessness — The state of being deathless; eternity.
- debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
- decahistidine — An oligopeptide consisting of ten histidine moieties.
- decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
- dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
- deemphasizing — Present participle of deemphasize.
- dehydrogenase — an enzyme, such as any of the respiratory enzymes, that activates oxidation-reduction reactions by transferring hydrogen from substrate to acceptor
- dehydrogenate — to remove hydrogen from
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
- dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
- dexamethasone — a type of powerful steroid, used as an anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant
- diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- dieffenbachia — any of various plants belonging to the genus Dieffenbachia, of the arum family, native to tropical America, often cultivated as houseplants for their decorative foliage.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- diiodomethane — methylene iodide.
- dilettanteish — Alternative form of dilettantish.
- dimethylamine — a colourless strong-smelling gas produced from ammonia and methanol, used to produce many industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals
- diphenoxylate — a substance, C 30 H 32 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride in the treatment of diarrhea.
- diphenylamine — a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble benzene derivative, C 12 H 11 N, used chiefly in the preparation of various dyes, as a stabilizer for nitrocellulose propellants, and for the detection of oxidizing agents in analytical chemistry.
- disenchanting — Present participle of disenchant.
- disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise.
- disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
- disharmonized — Simple past tense and past participle of disharmonize.