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9-letter words containing d, c, h

  • dish rack — frame for drying dishes
  • dishcloth — a cloth for use in washing dishes; dishrag.
  • dishclout — a cloth for use in washing dishes; dishrag.
  • distiches — Alternative spelling of distichs Plural form of distich.
  • dithionic — of or derived from dithionic acid.
  • ditrochee — a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.
  • dockhands — Plural form of dockhand.
  • dog-cheap — very inexpensive.
  • dolichuri — poetic term
  • dolmetsch — Arnold. 1858–1940, British musician, born in France. He contributed greatly to the revival of interest in early music and instruments
  • doohickey — a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
  • doomwatch — surveillance of the environment to warn of and prevent harm to it from human factors such as pollution or overpopulation
  • dordrecht — a city in SW Netherlands, on the Waal River.
  • dot pitch — (hardware)   The distance between a dot and the closest dot of the same colour (red, green or blue) on a color CRT. Dot pitch is typically from 0.28 to 0.51 mm but large presentation monitors may go up to 1.0 mm. The smaller the dot pitch, the crisper the image, 0.31 or less provides a sharp image, especially when displaying text. Dot pitch measurements between conventional tubes and Sony's Trinitron tubes are roughly, but not exactly comparable. Sony's CRTs use vertical stripes, not dots, and its measurement is the distance between stripes, not the diagonal distance between dots.
  • douchebag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
  • doughface — a Northerner who sympathized with the South during the controversies over new territories and slavery before the Civil War.
  • dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
  • dratchell — a scruffy woman; a slut; a drab
  • drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
  • drenching — to wet thoroughly; soak.
  • drop arch — a pointed arch having radii of length less than the span.
  • dropcloth — A large piece of plastic or canvas put over something to protect it from construction debris or paint.
  • dry-gulch — to ambush with the intent of killing or severely mauling: The riders were dry-gulched by bandits.
  • duchesses — the wife or widow of a duke.
  • duck hawk — a peregrine falcon of the American subspecies Falco peregrinus anatum, noted for its especially swift flight.
  • duckshove — to evade (responsibility or an issue)
  • duckwheat — India wheat.
  • duncishly — in a dullard-like manner
  • dustcloth — a soft, absorbent cloth used for dusting.
  • dutch 200 — a score of 200 in a game, made by bowling strikes and spares alternately.
  • dutch bob — a hair style consisting of bangs cut straight across the forehead and the rest of the hair cut to a uniform length just below the ears.
  • dutch cap — a woman's lace cap with triangular flaps, characteristic of Dutch national dress
  • dutch cut — Dutch bob.
  • dutch elm — a widely planted hybrid elm tree, Ulmus hollandica, with spreading branches and a short trunk
  • dutch hoe — a type of hoe in which the head consists of a two-edged cross-blade attached to two prongs or of a single pressing of this shape
  • dutch lap — a method of laying shingles, slates, or the like, in which each shingle or slate overlaps those below and to one side and is itself overlapped by those above and to the other side.
  • dyschezia — Difficult or painful defecation.
  • dysphagic — difficulty in swallowing.
  • dysphasic — inability to speak or understand words because of a brain lesion.
  • dysphonic — any disturbance of normal vocal function.
  • dysphoric — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
  • dysthetic — relating to dysthesia
  • dysthymic — A person diagnosed with dysthymia, or dysthymic depression.
  • echeloned — Simple past tense and past participle of echelon.
  • echidnine — the essential element contained in the poison of certain snakes or the poisonous secretion itself
  • echinoids — Plural form of echinoid.
  • echiuroid — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Echiuroidea, found in sand and mud of tropical and subtropical seas, having at the mouth a ciliated, often elongated prostomium.
  • echo word — a word that is echoic (sense 2), or onomatopoeic
  • ecohazard — any substance or activity that poses a threat to a habitat or an environment: Off-the-road motorcycling is an ecohazard to fragile desert habitats.
  • enchained — Simple past form of enchain.
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