10-letter words containing a, n, h, e, d
- chagrinned — a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
- chalcedony — a microcrystalline often greyish form of quartz with crystals arranged in parallel fibres: a gemstone. Formula: SiO2
- challenged — If you say that someone is challenged in a particular way, you mean that they have a disability in that area. Challenged is often combined with inappropriate words for humorous effect.
- championed — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- chandelier — A chandelier is a large, decorative frame which holds light bulbs or candles and hangs from the ceiling.
- chandlerly — like, or pertaining to, a chandler
- channelled — the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.
- chaperoned — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- chardonnet — (Louis Marie) Hilaire Bernigaud (ilɛr bɛrniɡo), Comte de. 1839–1924, French chemist and industrialist who produced rayon, the first artificial fibre
- chargehand — a workman whose grade of responsibility is just below that of a foreman
- chase down — If you chase someone down, you run after them or follow them quickly and catch them.
- cheddaring — The stage of manufacturing Cheddar cheese and similar cheeses where the curd is cut into small pieces, often cubes, to drain the whey before being stacked and turned.
- chiffonade — finely shredded leaf vegetables used as a base for a dish or as a garnish
- chinandega — a city in W Nicaragua.
- chinwagged — Simple past tense and past participle of chinwag.
- commandeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- cynghanedd — a complex system of rhyme and alliteration used in Welsh verse
- dance hall — Dance halls were large rooms or buildings where people used to pay to go and dance, usually in the evening.
- date-night — an evening social date on which a married or long-term couple go out together: I enjoy a once-a-week date night with my husband.
- dauphiness — dauphine.
- dawn horse — eohippus.
- deaconhood — the position of a deacon
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- dehumanise — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- dehumanize — If you say that something dehumanizes people, you mean it takes away from them good human qualities such as kindness, generosity, and independence.
- den father — (in the Boy Scouts) a man who serves as an adult leader or supervisor of a cub scout den.
- detachment — Detachment is the feeling that you have of not being personally involved in something or of having no emotional interest in it.
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- didelphian — of or relating to an animal in the Didelphia subclass of mammals
- diphenamid — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 16 H 17 ON, used to control weed growth on lawns and various croplands.
- disenchain — to set (a person) free from restraint
- disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disencharm — To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
- disenthral — disenthrall.
- dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- dithionate — a salt of dithionic acid.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- doorhandle — A door handle.
- downwashes — Plural form of downwash.
- dragonhead — any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
- dude ranch — a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.
- duennaship — The role or status of duenna.
- dunderhead — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- elder hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the nondealer, who has certain advantages in the play