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12-letter words containing d, t, h

  • customs shed — a large building in which customs officers carry out customs inspections
  • data channel — (communications)   A channel (on a BRI or PRI line) used to carry control information, to set up connections on the associated bearer channels. The name wasn't too bad back when users were sending voice (not data) over the bearer channels, but in 1997 it's quite a misnomer.
  • data exhaust — unstructured information or data that is a by-product of the online activities of Internet users: Collecting and analyzing data exhaust can provide valuable insight into the purchasing habits of consumers.
  • daughtercard — daughterboard
  • daughterless — Without a daughter.
  • daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
  • daughterling — a small daughter
  • day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
  • dead freight — an amount owed by a contractor who charters space in a ship but fails to occupy it fully.
  • death camass — any liliaceous plant of the genus Zygadenus (or Zigadenus), of the western US, that is poisonous to livestock, esp sheep
  • death duties — Death duties were a tax which had to be paid on the money and property of someone who had died. This tax is now called inheritance tax.
  • death notice — a public announcement, e.g. in a newspaper, that someone has died
  • death rattle — If you say that one thing is the death rattle of another, you mean that the first thing is a sign that very soon the second thing will come to an end.
  • death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
  • death threat — a threat to kill someone
  • death throes — The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends.
  • death valley — a desert valley in E California and W Nevada: the lowest, hottest, and driest area of the US. Lowest point: 86 m (282 ft) below sea level. Area: about 3885 sq km (1500 sq miles)
  • death's-head — a human skull or a representation of one
  • deathmatches — Plural form of deathmatch.
  • deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
  • decahydrates — Plural form of decahydrate.
  • dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
  • decipherment — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • deep therapy — radiotherapy with very penetrating short-wave radiation
  • deep-chested — having a broad, strong-looking upper body
  • dehypnotized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehypnotize.
  • deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
  • delightfully — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
  • delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
  • demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
  • demythifying — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
  • dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
  • depth charge — A depth charge is a type of bomb which explodes under water and which is used especially to destroy enemy submarines.
  • dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
  • detachedness — the quality of being detached or separated
  • detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
  • detectophone — a secret listening device, the predecessor of the modern 'bug'
  • dethronement — to remove from a throne; depose.
  • deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
  • diarthrodial — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
  • diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
  • diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
  • diazomethane — a yellow odourless explosive gas, used as a methylating agent. Formula: CH2:N:N
  • dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
  • dichotically — in a dichotic manner
  • dichotomised — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomise.
  • dichotomized — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomize Having been divided into dichotomous parts.
  • dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
  • dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
  • diet kitchen — a kitchen, as in a hospital, where special food is prepared for those requiring it.
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