14-letter words containing d, a, h
- desert varnish — the dark, lustrous coating or crust, usually of manganese and iron oxides, that forms on rocks, pebbles, etc., when exposed to weathering in the desert.
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
- diachronically — in a diachronic fashion
- diagonal cloth — a twilled fabric woven with distinctly diagonal lines.
- diaheliotropic — exhibiting diaheliotropism
- diamond-shaped — rhombic
- diaphanousness — The quality of being diaphanous.
- diaphragm pump — A diaphragm pump is a pump in which a diaphragm is used to move a fluid.
- diathermaneity — the quality of being diathermanous
- dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
- dichotomically — division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs.
- dichromic acid — an unstable dibasic oxidizing acid known only in solution and in the form of dichromate salts. Formula: H2Cr2O7
- die in harness — to die while still working or active, prior to retirement
- different than — different from
- diffie-hellman — (cryptography) A public-key encryption key exchange algorithm.
- dihedral angle — the angle between two planes in a dihedron.
- dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
- dimenhydrinate — a synthetic, crystalline, antihistamine powder, C 17 H 22 NO⋅C 7 H 6 ClN 4 O 2 , used in the treatment of allergic disorders and as a preventive for seasickness and airsickness.
- dinner theater — a restaurant in which a stage production is performed during or after dinner.
- dinner theatre — a form of entertainment at which a play is performed while the audience is served dinner
- directed graph — (digraph) A graph with one-way edges. See also directed acyclic graph.
- disaccharidase — an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides, as sucrose or lactose, to produce monosaccharides, as fructose or glucose.
- discharge head — The discharge head is the pressure at the discharge of a pump, measured as a height.
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- discharge rate — The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
- disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disestablished — Simple past tense and past participle of disestablish.
- disestablishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disestablish.
- disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
- disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
- disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
- dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- dithionic acid — a strong, unstable acid, H 2 S 2 O 6 , known only in solution and in the form of its salts.
- divine healing — healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
- dolichocephaly — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
- down the hatch — drinks toast
- draconic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).