10-letter words containing d, h, o
- dosshouses — Plural form of dosshouse.
- douche bag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
- douchiness — (slang, derogatory) The quality of being douchey or douchy; objectionableness.
- dough bird — the Eskimo curlew.
- dough hook — an attachment for a food processor or electric mixer, for kneading dough.
- dough-hook — an attachment for an electric mixer that kneads dough
- doughbelly — stoneroller (def 1).
- doughfaced — over-persuadable
- doughiness — the quality or characteristic of being like dough
- doughtiest — Superlative form of doughty.
- doukhobors — Dukhobors
- dovishness — The quality of being a dove (as opposed to a hawk).
- downgrowth — something that grows or has grown in a downward direction: The posterior pituitary is a downgrowth of the brain.
- downhiller — a skier who competes in downhill races, especially in the downhill.
- downlights — Plural form of downlight.
- downthrows — Plural form of downthrow.
- downwashes — Plural form of downwash.
- dragonfish — any marine fish of the family Bathydraconidae, of Antarctic seas, having an elongated body and flattened head and being biochemically adapted to extremely low temperatures.
- dragonhead — any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
- dray horse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- drearihood — (obsolete) affliction; dreariness.
- drive home — to cause to penetrate to the fullest extent
- drop cloth — a sheet of cloth, paper, plastic, or the like laid over furniture and floors for protection while a room is being painted or laid over shrubbery while the exterior of a house is being painted.
- dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
- drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
- drowsihead — drowsiness.
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- dual-homed — (networking) A kind of connection to a FDDI network where a host is simultaneously connected to two separate devices in the same FDDI ring. One of the connections becomes active while the other one is automatically blocked. If the first connection fails, the backup link takes over with no perceptible delay. A dual-homed device can tolerate a fault in one of its "homes" whereas a dual-attached device can tolerate a fault in one of the rings.
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- duotheists — Plural form of duotheist.
- dutch bond — a brickwork bond in which the vertical joints of the stretchers in any course are in line with the centers of the first stretchers above and below.
- dutch doll — a jointed wooden doll
- dutch door — a door consisting of two units horizontally divided so that each half can be opened or closed separately.
- dutch gold — an alloy of copper and zinc in the form of thin sheets, used as an imitation of gold leaf.
- dutch oven — a heavily constructed kettle with a close-fitting lid, used for pot roasts, stews, etc.
- dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.
- dyophysite — the presence of the divine and human natures in Jesus Christ
- dyothelete — a person who subscribes to the teaching that Christ had both a human and a divine will
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
- dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
- dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- echinoderm — any marine animal of the invertebrate phylum Echinodermata, having a radiating arrangement of parts and a body wall stiffened by calcareous pieces that may protrude as spines and including the starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc.
- edaphology — The ecological relationship of soil with plants, and land cultivation practices.
- editorship — the office or function of an editor.