10-letter words containing d, h, o
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
- codeswitch — Alternative form of code-switch.
- cold light — light emitted at low temperatures from a source that is not incandescent, such as fluorescence, phosphorescence, bioluminescence, or triboluminescence
- cold-patch — to apply a cold patch to.
- commandeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- commendeth — Archaic third-person singular form of commend.
- commonhold — a form of property tenure in which each flat in a multi-occupancy building is individually wholly owned and common areas are jointly owned
- comprehend — If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it.
- conchoidal — (of the fracture of minerals and rocks) having smooth shell-shaped convex and concave surfaces
- condylarth — any of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Condylarthra, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a slender body, low-crowned teeth, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- coolheaded — not easily flustered; calm
- coonhounds — Plural form of coonhound.
- copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
- coryphodon — a primitive hoofed mammal of the extinct genus Coryphodon, of the early Eocene Epoch, having a long, thickset body, short legs, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- cotehardie — (in the Middle Ages) a close-fitting outer garment with long sleeves, hip-length for men and full-length for women, often laced or buttoned down the front or back.
- cough drop — a lozenge to relieve a cough
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- cousinhood — Relationship as of cousins.
- crotcheted — short-tempered
- crotchwood — wood from a tree crotch, characterized by a swirling, irregular figure and used for furniture and veneers.
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
- danish oil — a furniture oil, based on synthetic resins, that gives a soft luster.
- dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
- dashboards — Plural form of dashboard.
- dauphinois — (of potatoes or other vegetables) sliced and cooked in milk, typically with a topping of cheese.
- dawn horse — eohippus.
- day school — A day school is a school where the students go home every evening and do not live at the school. Compare boarding school.
- deaconhood — the position of a deacon
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- dead horse — something that has ceased to be useful or relevant.
- death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
- death code — A routine whose job is to set everything in the computer - registers, memory, flags - to zero, including that portion of memory where it is running; its last act is to stomp on its own "store zero" instruction. Death code isn't very useful, but writing it is an interesting hacking challenge on architectures where the instruction set makes it possible, such as the PDP-8 or the Data General Nova. Perhaps the ultimate death code is on the TI 990 series, where all registers are actually in RAM, and the instruction "store immediate 0" has the opcode 0. The program counter will immediately wrap around core as many times as it can until a user hits HALT. Any empty memory location is death code. Worse, the manufacturer recommended use of this instruction in startup code (which would be in ROM and therefore survive).
- death roll — a list of the people killed in a war or disaster
- death toll — The death toll of an accident, disaster, or war is the number of people who die in it.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- debtholder — (finance) An owner of a financial obligation of another party.
- decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- deckhouses — Plural form of deckhouse.
- deep south — The Deep South consists of the states that are furthest south in the United States.
- deepthroat — To perform fellatio or irrumation on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth.
- deerhounds — Plural form of deerhound.
- dehydrator — a person or thing that dehydrates.
- deinothere — a member of the genus Deinotherium
- delphinoid — a member of the genus Delphinoidea, of which dolphins and porpoises are members
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.