10-letter words containing d, h, i
- depot ship — a ship providing supplies and facilities for other vessels or naval bases
- derbyshire — a county of N central England: contains the Peak District and several resorts with mineral springs: the geographical and ceremonial county includes the city of Derby, which became an independent unitary authority in 1997. Administrative centre: Matlock. Pop (excluding Derby city): 743 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Derby city): 2551 sq km (985 sq miles)
- deshabille — the state of being partly or carelessly dressed
- deshelling — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- dethroning — Present participle of dethrone.
- devilishly — of, like, or befitting a devil; diabolical; fiendish.
- devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
- dhaulagiri — a mountain in W central Nepal, in the Himalayas. Height: 8172 m (26 810 ft)
- 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
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diaphragms — Plural form of diaphragm.
- diaphyseal — the shaft of a long bone.
- diarrhetic — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- diarrhoeal — Standard spelling of diarrheal.
- diaschisis — a disturbance or loss of function in one part of the brain due to a localized injury in another part.
- diathermal — of or relating to diathermy
- 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
- diddlyshit — diddly (def 1).
- didelphian — of or relating to an animal in the Didelphia subclass of mammals
- dienophile — (organic chemistry) A compound that readily reacts with a diene; especially an alkene in the Diels-Alder reaction.
- diethylene — (organic chemistry, in combination) Two ethylene groups in a molecule.
- dihydrogen — (chemistry) The divalent radical formed from two separate hydrogen atoms or ions.
- dimethoate — a highly toxic crystalline compound, C 5 H 12 NO 3 PS 2 , used as an insecticide.
- diminished — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- diminishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of diminish.
- dimorphism — Zoology. the occurrence of two forms distinct in structure, coloration, etc., among animals of the same species. Compare sexual dimorphism.
- dimorphite — a mineral, arsenic sulfide, As 4 S 3 , yellow-orange in color and similar in its properties to orpiment.
- dimorphous — having two forms.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- diorthosis — the act or process of straightening something, esp a deformity in something
- diorthotic — involving or relating to the revision of a literary text