10-letter words containing d, a, c, h
- deathplace — the place at which a person dies: Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.
- deathwatch — a vigil held beside a dying or dead person
- debauchees — Plural form of debauchee.
- debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- decadrachm — a silver coin of ancient Greece equal to 10 drachmas.
- decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
- decathexis — to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.
- decathlete — a participant in a decathlon
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- deck chair — A deck chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deck chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
- deck watch — (on a ship) a precision watch used on deck for navigational purposes to avoid disturbing the chronometer.
- deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
- decreaseth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrease.
- dede agach — former name of Alexandroupolis.
- 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.
- 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
- 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–
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- disenchain — to set (a person) free from restraint
- disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disencharm — To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
- disk crash — the failure of a disk storage system, usually resulting from the read-write head touching the moving disk surface and causing mechanical damage
- dispatched — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispatches — Plural form of dispatch.
- ditchwater — water, especially stagnant and dirty water, that has collected in a ditch.