10-letter words containing d, h, u
- churchyard — A churchyard is an area of land around a church where dead people are buried.
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- coonhounds — Plural form of coonhound.
- 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.
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- cut a dash — If you say that someone cuts a dash, you mean that they have an attractively stylish appearance or a rather bold manner.
- dachshunds — Plural form of dachshund.
- dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
- daisy bush — any of various shrubs of the genus Olearia, of Australia and New Zealand, with daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
- dauphiness — dauphine.
- dauphinois — (of potatoes or other vegetables) sliced and cooked in milk, typically with a topping of cheese.
- death duty — a tax on property inheritances: in Britain, replaced in 1975 by capital transfer tax and since 1986 by inheritance tax
- debauchees — Plural form of debauchee.
- debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- deckhouses — Plural form of deckhouse.
- declutched — Simple past tense and past participle of declutch.
- deep south — The Deep South consists of the states that are furthest south in the United States.
- deerhounds — Plural form of deerhound.
- dehumanise — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- dehumanize — If you say that something dehumanizes people, you mean it takes away from them good human qualities such as kindness, generosity, and independence.
- dehumidify — to remove water from (something, esp the air)
- delightful — If you describe something or someone as delightful, you mean they are very pleasant.
- delphinium — A delphinium is a garden plant which has a tall stem with blue flowers growing up it.
- der fuhrer — Adolf [ad-olf,, ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈæd ɒlf,, ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), (Adolf Schicklgruber"der Führer") 1889–1945, Nazi dictator of Germany, born in Austria: Chancellor 1933–45; dictator 1934–45.
- dhaulagiri — a mountain in W central Nepal, in the Himalayas. Height: 8172 m (26 810 ft)
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- dimorphous — having two forms.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- diphyllous — having two leaves.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- dischuffed — (New Zealand, British, informal) Very displeased or unsatisfied.
- disfurnish — to deprive of something with which a person or thing is furnished; divest of possessions; strip.
- distichous — Botany. arranged alternately in two vertical rows on opposite sides of an axis, as leaves.
- distraught — distracted; deeply agitated.
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- disulphide — (in inorganic chemistry) a sulfide containing two atoms of sulfur, as carbon disulfide, CS 2 .
- dithionous — as in dithionous acid
- do without — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- dock house — traditionally a building situated at the dock where a harbourmaster works and resides
- dog clutch — a clutch in which projections of one of the engaging parts fit into recesses of the other.
- dolichurus — a dactylic hexameter characterized by a redundant syllable at the end
- dollhouses — Plural form of dollhouse.