10-letter words containing c, h
- deckhouses — Plural form of deckhouse.
- declutched — Simple past tense and past participle of declutch.
- decreaseth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrease.
- dede agach — former name of Alexandroupolis.
- dehiscence — a splitting open, as of a pod or anther, along definite structural lines
- descendeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of descend.
- deschooled — Simple past tense and past participle of deschool.
- deschooler — an advocate of deschooling
- desk check — (programming) To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers - though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be. Compare dry run, eyeball search, vdiff, vgrep.
- despatched — Simple past tense and past participle of despatch.
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- despatches — Plural form of despatch.
- detachable — If a part of an object is detachable, it has been made so that it can be removed from the object.
- detachably — in a detachable fashion
- detachedly — in a detached fashion
- detachment — Detachment is the feeling that you have of not being personally involved in something or of having no emotional interest in it.
- dethatched — Simple past tense and past participle of dethatch.
- dhobi itch — a fungal disease of the skin: a type of ringworm chiefly affecting the groin
- diachronic — of, relating to, or studying the development of a phenomenon through time; historical
- diagraphic — descriptive; relating to illustration by drawing or graphics
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diarrhetic — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- diaschisis — a disturbance or loss of function in one part of the brain due to a localized injury in another part.
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- dichloride — a compound in which two atoms of chlorine are combined with another atom or group
- dichlorine — (chemistry, in combination) Two atoms of chlorine in a molecule.
- dichlorvos — an organophosphate insecticide used to control garden and household pests and to treat worm infections
- dichotomic — division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs.
- dichromacy — The quality of having two independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.
- dichromasy — Alternative spelling of dichromacy.
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dichromism — the state of being dichromic
- dick-heads — dick (def 3).
- dictagraph — Alt form dictograph.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
- diorthotic — involving or relating to the revision of a literary text
- dip switch — computing: on-off switch
- dipchemeng — Diploma in Chemical Engineering
- diphyletic — of or relating to a taxonomic group of organisms derived from two separate ancestral lines.
- direct hit — If a place suffers a direct hit, a bomb, bullet, or other missile that has been aimed at it lands exactly in that place, rather than some distance away.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- disc wheel — a road wheel of a motor vehicle that has a round pressed disc in place of spokes
- discharged — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- dischargee — a person who has been discharged, as from military service.
- discharger — Someone or something that discharges something, such as pollution or a firearm.
- discharges — Plural form of discharge.
- dischuffed — (New Zealand, British, informal) Very displeased or unsatisfied.
- discophile — a person who studies and collects phonograph records, especially those of a rare or specialized nature.