8-letter words containing d, h
- bothered — worried or concerned
- bouchard — (Louis) Henri [lwee ahn-ree] /lwi ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1875–1960, French sculptor.
- bow hand — the hand that holds the bow in archery or in playing a violin, cello, etc.
- bowditch — Nathaniel1773-1838; U.S. mathematician, astronomer, & navigator
- bradshaw — a British railway timetable, published annually from 1839 to 1961
- braeheid — the summit of a hill or slope
- branched — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- brandish — If you brandish something, especially a weapon, you hold it in a threatening way.
- breached — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- breathed — relating to or denoting a speech sound for whose articulation the vocal cords are not made to vibrate
- breeched — the lower, rear part of the trunk of the body; buttocks.
- broached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broadish — fairly broad
- brunhild — (in the Nibelungenlied) a legendary queen won for King Gunther by the magic of Siegfried: corresponds to Brynhild in Norse mythology
- brynhild — a Valkyrie won as the wife of Gunnar by Sigurd who wakes her from an enchanted sleep: corresponds to Brunhild in the Nibelungenlied
- buddhism — Buddhism is a religion which teaches that the way to end suffering is by overcoming your desires.
- buddhist — A Buddhist is a person whose religion is Buddhism.
- bulkhead — A bulkhead is a wall which divides the inside of a ship or aeroplane into separate sections.
- bullhead — any of various small northern mainly marine scorpaenoid fishes of the family Cottidae that have a large head covered with bony plates and spines
- buraydah — a town and oasis in central Saudi Arabia. Pop: 462 000 (2005 est)
- bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
- butthead — a stupid person
- caboched — (of an image of the head of a beast) having an exposed face but a concealed neck
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cadherin — (protein) Any of a class of transmembrane proteins important in maintaining tissue structure.
- campshed — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- capuched — hooded
- catheads — Plural form of cathead.
- cathedra — a bishop's throne
- cathodal — (biochemistry) Attracted towards a cathode.
- cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
- cathodic — pertaining to a cathode or phenomena in its vicinity.
- ceilidhs — Plural form of ceilidh.
- cephalad — towards the head or anterior part
- chad box — (hardware) (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
- chadarim — plural of cheder.
- chadless — (of a keypunch) not producing chads
- chadlock — Alternative form of charlock.
- chadwick — Sir Edwin. 1800–90, British social reformer, known for his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)
- chalcids — Plural form of chalcid.
- chaldaic — an inhabitant of ancient Chaldea; a Chaldean
- chaldean — a member of an ancient Semitic people who controlled S Babylonia from the late 8th to the late 7th century bc
- chaldron — a unit of capacity equal to 36 bushels. Formerly used in the US for the measurement of solids, being equivalent to 1.268 cubic metres. Used in Britain for both solids and liquids, it is equivalent to 1.309 cubic metres
- chaliced — (of plants) having cup-shaped flowers
- chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
- chandler — a dealer in a specified trade or merchandise
- chaordic — (of a system, organization, or natural process) governed by or combining elements of both chaos and order
- characid — (zoology) Any member of the Characidae.
- charades — a parlour game in which one team acts out each syllable of a word, the other team having to guess the word
- charidee — a jocular spelling of charity, as pronounced in a mid-Atlantic accent