9-letter words containing a, s, h, d
- catfished — Simple past tense and past participle of catfish.
- cavendish — tobacco that has been sweetened and pressed into moulds to form bars
- chairdays — old age, or the point in life when resting in a chair is the most comfortable way of passing time
- chairside — Relating to activities that happen next to the dental chair during treatment.
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- chastened — subdued; humbled
- chastised — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- chastized — Simple past tense and past participle of chastize.
- cheapside — street and district of London; in the Middle Ages it was a marketplace
- chipheads — Plural form of chiphead.
- chlamydes — Plural form of chlamys.
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- chrysalid — of or relating to a chrysalis
- churidars — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
- clackdish — a dish carried by a beggar
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- codeshare — (aviation) Agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
- cokeheads — Plural form of cokehead.
- cold cash — money paid in full at the time of a business transaction
- crash pad — a place to live or sleep temporarily
- crashland — Alternative form of crash-land.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- dabchicks — Plural form of dabchick.
- dachshund — A dachshund is a small dog that has very short legs, a long body, and long ears.
- daghestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- dahabeahs — Plural form of dahabeah.
- daisy ham — a boned and smoked piece of pork from the pig's shoulder
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- dashboard — The dashboard in a car is the panel facing the driver's seat where most of the instruments and switches are.
- dashingly — In a dashing manner.
- dashlight — a light illuminating the dashboard of an automobile, esp at night
- datasheet — A document summarizing the performance and other technical characteristics of a product.
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- day shift — a group of workers who work a shift during the daytime in an industry or occupation where a night shift or a back shift is also worked
- daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
- deadheads — Plural form of deadhead.
- deadhouse — a mortuary
- deathbeds — Plural form of deathbed.
- deathless — immortal, esp because of greatness; everlasting
- deathsman — an executioner
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- decastich — a poem that consists of ten lines
- degarnish — to remove ornamentation from (something)
- deschamps — Émile (French emil), full name Émile Deschamps de Saint-Armand. 1791–1871, French poet, dramatist, and librettist: a leading figure in the French romantic movement
- dharmsala — an Indian hostel or rest-house, often built with religious purpose
- diagraphs — Plural form of diagraph.