10-letter words containing d, i, t, h, e
- diphtheria — a febrile, infectious disease caused by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the air passages, especially the throat.
- diphyletic — of or relating to a taxonomic group of organisms derived from two separate ancestral lines.
- direct hit — If a place suffers a direct hit, a bomb, bullet, or other missile that has been aimed at it lands exactly in that place, rather than some distance away.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disenthral — disenthrall.
- dish towel — cloth: for drying dishes
- dishearted — Simple past tense and past participle of disheart.
- dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disheritor — someone who disinherits
- dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
- dishtowels — Plural form of dishtowel.
- disinherit — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- dispatched — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispatches — Plural form of dispatch.
- dissheathe — to bring out of a sheathe; to unsheathe
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- ditchwater — water, especially stagnant and dirty water, that has collected in a ditch.
- ditheistic — Of or pertaining to ditheism, the belief in two gods.
- ditheletic — of or relating to dithelism
- ditherings — Plural form of dithering.
- dithionate — a salt of dithionic acid.
- dithionite — any salt of dithionous acid
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- docentship — privatdocent.
- dogfighter — Person who competes in dogfighting.
- dome light — a small light under the roof of an automobile or boat.
- doughtiest — Superlative form of doughty.
- draughtier — Comparative form of draughty.
- drive-thru — a takeaway restaurant, bank, etc designed so that customers can use it without leaving their cars
- driveshaft — A rotating shaft that transmits torque in an engine.
- duotheists — Plural form of duotheist.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- dutch wife — (in tropical countries) an open framework used in bed as a rest for the limbs.
- dyophysite — the presence of the divine and human natures in Jesus Christ
- editorship — the office or function of an editor.
- empathised — Simple past tense and past participle of empathise.
- empathized — Simple past tense and past participle of empathize.
- endolithic — Within rock.
- endophytic — Of or relating to an endophyte.
- endothecia — Plural form of endothecium.
- endothelia — Plural form of endothelium.
- enhydritic — pertaining to enhydrite
- ethanediol — (organic compound) ethylene glycol.
- ethelred i — died 871, king of Wessex (866–71). He led resistance to the Danish invasion of England; died following his victory at Ashdown
- etherified — Simple past tense and past participle of etherify.
- euthanised — Simple past tense and past participle of euthanise.