10-letter words containing d, u, c, h
- dude ranch — a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.
- dutch barn — a farm building consisting of a steel frame and a curved roof
- dutch bond — a brickwork bond in which the vertical joints of the stretchers in any course are in line with the centers of the first stretchers above and below.
- dutch doll — a jointed wooden doll
- dutch door — a door consisting of two units horizontally divided so that each half can be opened or closed separately.
- dutch gold — an alloy of copper and zinc in the form of thin sheets, used as an imitation of gold leaf.
- dutch oven — a heavily constructed kettle with a close-fitting lid, used for pot roasts, stews, etc.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- dutch rush — scouring rush.
- dutch wife — (in tropical countries) an open framework used in bed as a rest for the limbs.
- dutchesses — Plural form of dutchess.
- dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.
- dyrrachium — a port in W Albania, on the Adriatic. Pop: 86 900 (1991 est)
- enschedule — to place in a schedule
- fluohydric — (chemistry) hydrofluoric.
- glochidium — glochid.
- hand cruft — (jargon) (After "hand craft") To write something by hand that would be better done automatically, e.g. writing assembly language instead of using a compiler (see hand hacking).
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- handcuffed — Simple past tense and past participle of handcuff.
- hard court — a tennis court having a concrete or asphalt surface.
- hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
- head count — an inventory of people in a group taken by counting individuals.
- hiccoughed — Simple past tense and past participle of hiccough.
- hold court — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- holodiscus — a genus of flowering deciduous shrubs of the family Rosaceae
- house dick — house detective.
- huckstered — Simple past tense and past participle of huckster.
- humic acid — a brown, melanin-tinted mixture of polymers, found in lignite, peat, and soils, where it acts as a cation exchange agent: used in drilling fluids and inks.
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydromulch — to spread mulch on (a field, garden, etc.) in a stream of water propelled through a hose.
- inch-pound — one-twelfth of a foot-pound. Abbreviation: in-lb.
- juiceheads — Plural form of juicehead.
- keypunched — Simple past tense and past participle of keypunch.
- kurdaitcha — (Australia) An aboriginal evil spirit; a sorcerer.
- launch pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- le duc tho — (Phan Dinh Khai) 1911–90, Vietnamese politician and statesman: declined 1973 Nobel Peace Prize.
- macdonough — Thomas, 1783–1825, U.S. naval officer: defeated British on Lake Champlain 1814.
- moustached — Having moustache.
- musclehead — a muscular man, esp. one who is involved in bodybuilding, weight lifting, etc.
- nudibranch — a shell-less, marine snail of the suborder Nudibranchia, having external, often branched respiratory appendages on the back and sides.
- outmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of outmarch.
- outmatched — to be superior to; surpass; outdo: The home team seems to have been completely outmatched by the visitors.
- outreached — Simple past tense and past participle of outreach.
- psyched up — psychologically prepared
- puducherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
- punch card — punched card
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- punched-up — a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
- reschedule — to schedule for another or later time: to reschedule a baseball game because of rain.