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12-letter words containing a, r, h

  • disenchanter — One who disenchants.
  • disfranchise — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
  • disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
  • disheartened — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
  • dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
  • distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
  • dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
  • dodecahedral — Having twelve plane surfaces.
  • dodecahedron — a solid figure having 12 faces.
  • dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
  • dorothea dix — Dorothea Lynde [lind] /lɪnd/ (Show IPA), (Dorothy) 1802–87, U.S. educator and social reformer.
  • double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
  • doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
  • douglas hurd — a third-class university degree
  • down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
  • dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
  • dram refresh — (storage)   The operation which cycles through a DRAM reading each row and writing it back again to compensate for the gradual leakage of charge from the capacitors which store the data. This may be done by the CPU but is often done by a dedicated memory controller.
  • drama school — a college which trains students (who are generally 18+) to act
  • drapery shop — a shop selling fabrics and sewing materials
  • draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
  • draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
  • draughtproof — That prevents the access of draughts.
  • dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
  • dreamcatcher — A small hoop containing a horsehair mesh, or a similar construction of string or yarn, decorated with feathers and beads, believed to give its owner good dreams. Dreamcatchers were originally made by American Indians.
  • drift anchor — a sea anchor or drag.
  • drug holiday — a brief period during which a patient stops taking a prescribed medication, especially an antidepressant, to recover some normal functions, reduce side effects, or maintain sensitivity to the drug.
  • drum machine — a device that simulates percussion sounds in various combinations and rhythms, and can alter digitally stored drum sounds or make digital recordings of drum sounds.
  • dunderheaded — Stupid, foolish.
  • dust catcher — Informal. a knickknack or other household object that is little used.
  • dutch harbor — a U.S. naval base on Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian Islands.
  • dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
  • dwarf cherry — any of several low, North American cherries that grow on dry or sandy soil, especially Prunus pumila, of the Great Lakes region.
  • dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
  • dysrhythmias — Plural form of dysrhythmia.
  • earl marshal — an officer of the English peerage who presides over the College of Heralds and organizes royal processions and other important ceremonies
  • early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
  • early hebrew — noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.
  • earth almond — chufa.
  • earth closet — a type of lavatory in which earth is used to cover excreta
  • earth colour — any of various brown pigments composed chiefly of iron oxides
  • earth mother — the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility and the source of all life.
  • earth pillar — a pillar of earthy matter left by erosion of the surrounding ground.
  • earth return — the return path for an electrical circuit made by connections to earth at each end
  • earth summit — a summit conference of 100 or more earth leaders debating global environmental and development issues, specifically the summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, but the term is also applied e.g. to a projected similar event in 2012
  • earth tongue — any of a group of fungi of the phylum Ascomycota, characterized by a tongue-shaped fruiting body, found on decaying logs and damp soil.
  • earth tremor — a relatively small or short-lived movement of the earth's surface caused by the same forces that produce earthquakes
  • earth-grazer — an asteroid in an orbit that takes it close to the earth
  • earth-mother — the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility and the source of all life.
  • earth-moving — Earth-moving equipment is machinery that is used for digging and moving large amounts of soil.
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