13-letter words containing a, s, h, d, e
- 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)
- chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
- chopped steak — ground, cooked beef, usually served as a main course.
- christmastide — the festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day.
- churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
- clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
- 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.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- commandership — a person who commands.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- cradle scythe — cradle (def 4b).
- damson cheese — thick damson jam
- dance hostess — a woman who hosts a ball at her house
- 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
- dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
- death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
- death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
- deathlessness — The state of being deathless; eternity.
- debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
- decahistidine — An oligopeptide consisting of ten histidine moieties.
- 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
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
- dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dexamethasone — a type of powerful steroid, used as an anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- dilettanteish — Alternative form of dilettantish.
- disaccharides — Plural form of disaccharide.
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- 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.
- dishabilitate — to disqualify
- dishabituated — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- disharmonized — Simple past tense and past participle of disharmonize.
- disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disinthralled — freed from thraldom
- dispatch case — attaché case.
- dodecahedrons — Plural form of dodecahedron.