9-letter words containing d, c, h
- debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debouched — Simple past tense and past participle of debouche.
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- dec alpha — (processor) A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. In February 1996 it was clocked at 200 MHz and in March 1998 at 666 MHz.
- decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
- decahedra — plural form of singular decahedron: solid figure with ten plane faces
- decastich — a poem that consists of ten lines
- decathect — 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.
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- déchéance — the act of forfeiting something
- dechunker — chunker
- deciphers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decipher.
- deck hand — a seaman assigned various duties, such as mooring and cargo handling, on the deck of a ship
- deck hook — hook1 (def 16).
- deck shoe — Deck shoes are flat casual shoes made of canvas or leather.
- deckchair — A deckchair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deckchairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the garden.
- deckhouse — a houselike cabin on the deck of a ship
- declareth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'declare'.
- decoherer — a device that re-establishes a coherer to usual levels of receptiveness
- dehiscent — (of fruits, anthers, etc) opening spontaneously to release seeds or pollen
- delaroche — (Hippolyte) Paul. 1797–1859, French painter of portraits and sentimental historical scenes, such as The Children of Edward IV in the Tower (1830)
- den chief — (in the Boy Scouts) a boy scout who supervises a cub scout den in cooperation with a den mother or den father.
- 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
- deschutes — river in central and N Oreg., flowing from the Cascade Range north into the Columbia River: c. 250 mi (402 km)
- detaching — Present participle of detach.
- deutscher — Isaac, 1907–1967, English journalist and author, born in Poland.
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- diachylon — a type of adhesive plaster, formerly made of various plant juices, but later containing lead oxide and glycerin
- diaphonic — Of or pertaining to diaphony.
- diarrheic — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of diarrhea.
- diathetic — Pathology. a constitutional predisposition or tendency, as to a particular disease or other abnormal state of the body or mind.
- dichasium — a cymose inflorescence in which each branch bearing a flower gives rise to two other flowering branches, as in the stitchwort
- dichogamy — the maturation of male and female parts of a flower at different times, preventing automatic self-pollination
- dichondra — any of a genus of creeping perennial herbs of the Convolvulaceae family, with white, pale yellow, or green flowers
- dichoptic — having the eyes distinctly separate
- dichotomy — If there is a dichotomy between two things, there is a very great difference or opposition between them.
- dichroism — a property of a uniaxial crystal, such as tourmaline, of showing a perceptible difference in colour when viewed along two different axes in transmitted white light
- dichroite — cordierite.
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- dichromic — of or involving only two colours; dichromatic
- didrachma — An Ancient Greek silver coin worth two drachmas.
- digraphic — Of or pertaining to a digraph.
- dimorphic — having two forms.
- dipswitch — (electronics, computing) A miniature switch designed to be attached to a circuit board to customize the behavior of the circuit.
- dirichlet — Peter Gustav Lejeune [pey-tuh r goo s-tahf luh-zhœn] /ˈpeɪ tər ˈgʊs tɑf ləˈʒœn/ (Show IPA), 1805–59, German mathematician.
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.
- discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- dischurch — to cause (a church) to no longer be a church