12-letter words containing d, o, n, a, h
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- dodecahedron — a solid figure having 12 faces.
- dodecaphonic — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
- dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
- donald knuth — (person) Donald E. Knuth, the author of the TeX document formatting system, Metafont its font-design program and the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of algorithms, "The Art of Computer Programming". Knuth suggested the name "Backus-Naur Form" and was also involved in the SOL simulation language, and developed the WEB literate programming system. See also MIX, Turingol.
- doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
- down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
- down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- drift anchor — a sea anchor or drag.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- earth almond — chufa.
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- enarthrodial — Relating to an enarthrosis.
- endochondral — occurring, or present, in cartilage
- endothelioma — Any of various mostly benign neoplasms derived from the endothelium of blood vessels or lymph channels.
- endotracheal — Situated or occurring within or performed by way of the trachea.
- exheredation — A disinheriting; disherison.
- fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- fountainhead — a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.
- four-in-hand — a long necktie to be tied in a slipknot with the ends left hanging.
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- golden share — a share in a company that controls at least 51% of the voting rights, esp one retained by the UK government in some privatization issues
- good heavens — You say 'Good heavens!' or 'Heavens!' to express surprise or to emphasize that you agree or disagree with someone.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- ground shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- halcyon days — period regarded with nostalgia
- half a dozen — six
- half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- hand of writ — handwriting; penmanship.
- hand to hand — of, belonging to, using, or used by the hand.
- hand-holding — the act of holding hands, especially as a sign or token of affection.
- hand-me-down — an article of clothing passed on to another person after being used, outgrown, etc.: The younger children wore the hand-me-downs of the older ones.
- hand-to-hand — close to one's adversary; at close quarters: hand-to-hand combat.
- handsomeness — The quality of being handsome.
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.