10-letter words containing c, h, e, d
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- docentship — privatdocent.
- dock house — traditionally a building situated at the dock where a harbourmaster works and resides
- dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogwatches — Plural form of dogwatch.
- doohickeys — Plural form of doohickey.
- door check — a device, usually hydraulic or pneumatic, for controlling the closing of a door and preventing it from slamming.
- dorchester — a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels.
- douche bag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
- douchiness — (slang, derogatory) The quality of being douchey or douchy; objectionableness.
- doughfaced — over-persuadable
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- dude ranch — a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.
- dutch oven — a heavily constructed kettle with a close-fitting lid, used for pot roasts, stews, etc.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- dutch wife — (in tropical countries) an open framework used in bed as a rest for the limbs.
- dutchesses — Plural form of dutchess.
- echinoderm — any marine animal of the invertebrate phylum Echinodermata, having a radiating arrangement of parts and a body wall stiffened by calcareous pieces that may protrude as spines and including the starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc.
- enchiladas — Plural form of enchilada.
- enciphered — Simple past tense and past participle of encipher.
- encroached — Simple past tense and past participle of encroach.
- endolithic — Within rock.
- endophytic — Of or relating to an endophyte.
- endothecia — Plural form of endothecium.
- enhydritic — pertaining to enhydrite
- enrichened — Simple past tense and past participle of enrichen.
- enschedule — to place in a schedule
- entrenched — (of an attitude, habit, or belief) Firmly established and difficult or unlikely to change; ingrained.
- farfetched — improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
- franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
- french bed — a bed without posts, terminating in identical outward-curving rolls at the head and the foot.
- french dip — a hot sandwich of roast beef, pork, or lamb, served on a crusty roll over which seasoned pan juices are poured.
- french kid — kidskin tanned by an alum or vegetable process and finished in a manner originally employed by the French.
- frenchweed — the penny-cress, Thlaspi arvense.
- good cheer — cheerful spirits; courage: to be of good cheer.
- haciendado — hacendado.
- hacked off — (jargon) (Analogous to "pissed off") Said of system administrators who have become annoyed, upset, or touchy owing to suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimised by crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly criminal activities. For example, having unreadable files in your home directory called "worm", "lockpick", or "goroot" would probably be an effective (as well as impressively obvious and stupid) way to get your sysadmin hacked off at you.
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- hand cream — a cream that you put on your hands to make them feel softer and smoother
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hand-piece — handheld, power-operated shears used by a shearer
- handcuffed — Simple past tense and past participle of handcuff.
- handpicked — Picked by hand; picked or selected with care.
- handpieces — Plural form of handpiece.
- hard cider — the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- hard peach — a clingstone peach.
- hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
- hard-coded — (jargon) (By analogy with "hard-wired") Said of a data value or behaviour written directly into a program, possibly in multiple places, where it cannot be easily modified. There are several alternatives, depending on how often the value is likely to change. It may be replaced with a compile-time constant, such as a C "#define" macro, in which case a change will still require recompilation; or it may be read at run time from a profile, resource (see de-rezz), or environment variable that a user can easily modify; or it may be read as part of the program's input data. To change something hard-coded requires recompilation (if using a compiled language of course) but, more seriously, it requires sufficient understanding of the implementation to be sure that the change will not introduce inconsistency and cause the program to fail. For example, "The line terminator is hard-coded as newline; who in their right mind would use anything else?" See magic number.