11-letter words containing d, i, s, h
- choroiditis — a medical condition consisting of pain and swelling of the choroid
- christendom — All the Christian people and countries in the world can be referred to as Christendom.
- chrysalidal — relating to a chrysalis or stage in the development of an insect
- chrysalides — the hard-shelled pupa of a moth or butterfly; an obtect pupa.
- chrysoidine — a red-brown or greenish-black, crystalline solid, C 12 H 13 N 4 Cl, that yields orange colors in aqueous or alcohol solution: used chiefly in dyeing cotton and silk.
- chrysomelid — a vibrantly-coloured beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae that eats the leaves of plants
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- daisy chain — A daisy chain is a string of daisies that have been joined together by their stems to make a necklace.
- daisy wheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- dampishness — the quality of being dampish
- danish blue — a strong-tasting white cheese with blue veins
- danish loaf — a large white loaf with a centre split having the top crust dusted with flour, esp one baked on the sole of the oven
- dasht-i-lut — a desert plateau in central and E central Iran
- de-emphasis — a reduction in emphasis: There has been de-emphasis on athletic activities at the school.
- dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
- deathliness — The state or quality of being deathly.
- deemphasize — to place less emphasis upon; reduce in importance, size, scope, etc.: The university de-emphasized intercollegiate football.
- dehumanised — Past participle of dehumanise.
- dehumanises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumanise.
- dehumanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumanize.
- deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
- delightless — not offering delight
- delightsome — highly pleasing; delightful.
- delphiniums — Plural form of delphinium.
- deminishing — Present participle of deminish.
- demolishing — Present participle of demolish.
- denizenship — the status of a denizen
- deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
- deshielding — (physics, chemistry) The situation, in NMR spectroscopy, in which a local magnetic field is strengthened by the presence of neighbouring nuclei.
- despatching — Present participle of despatch.
- diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
- diaper rash — (in babies) any irritation to the skin around the genitals, anus, or buttocks, usually caused by contact with urine or excrement
- diaphoreses — perspiration, especially when artificially induced.
- diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
- diapophyses — Plural form of diapophysis.
- diapophysis — the upper or articular surface of a transverse vertebral process
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- diarthrosis — any freely movable joint, such as the shoulder and hip joints
- diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dichotomies — Botany. a mode of branching by constant forking, as in some stems, in veins of leaves, etc.
- dichotomise — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomist — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.