10-letter words containing e, h, r
- door check — a device, usually hydraulic or pneumatic, for controlling the closing of a door and preventing it from slamming.
- doorhandle — A door handle.
- dorchester — a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels.
- downhiller — a skier who competes in downhill races, especially in the downhill.
- dragonhead — any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
- draughtier — Comparative form of draughty.
- draw-sheet — a sheet that can be easily removed from underneath a patient in a bed
- drawshaves — Plural form of drawshave.
- dray horse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dreamwhile — the duration of a dream
- drearihead — (obsolete) sadness; dreariness.
- drearihood — (obsolete) affliction; dreariness.
- dress ship — to decorate a vessel by displaying all signal flags on lines run from the bow to the stern over the mast trucks
- drive home — to cause to penetrate to the fullest extent
- 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.
- drowsihead — drowsiness.
- drugpusher — a person who sells illicit drugs.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- dude ranch — a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.
- dunderhead — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- dzerzhinsk — a city in the central Russian Federation in Europe, W of Nizhni Novgorod.
- each other — Although some insist that each other be used only in reference to two (The two candidates respected each other) and one another in reference to three or more (The three nations threaten one another), in standard practice they are interchangeable. Each other is not restricted to two, nor is one another restricted to three or more. The possessive of each other is each other's; the possessive of one another is one another's.
- earbashing — a scolding or lengthy and vituperative verbal attack
- earth sign — any of the three astrological signs, Taurus, Virgo, or Capricorn, that are grouped together because of the shared attributes of practicality and interest in material things.
- earth tone — any of various warm, muted colors ranging basically from neutral to deep brown.
- earth wave — any elastic wave traveling through the material of the earth, as a wave caused by an earthquake.
- earth wire — a wire connecting an appliance to earth
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- earthiness — of the nature of or consisting of earth or soil.
- earthlight — earthshine.
- earthlings — Plural form of earthling.
- earthmover — a vehicle, as a bulldozer, for pushing or carrying excavated earth from place to place.
- earthquake — something that is severely disruptive; upheaval.
- earthrises — Plural form of earthrise.
- earthshine — the faint illumination of the part of the moon not illuminated by sunlight, as during a crescent phase, caused by the reflection of light from the earth.
- earthstars — Plural form of earthstar.
- earthwards — Also, earthwards. toward the earth.
- earthwoman — a female inhabitant or native of the planet Earth.
- earthwomen — Plural form of earthwoman.
- earthworks — Plural form of earthwork.
- earthworms — Plural form of earthworm.
- easy chair — an upholstered armchair for lounging.
- echeverria — Esteban [es-te-vahn] /ɛsˈtɛ vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1805–51, Argentine poet.
- echinoderm — any marine animal of the invertebrate phylum Echinodermata, having a radiating arrangement of parts and a body wall stiffened by calcareous pieces that may protrude as spines and including the starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc.
- echo verse — a poem in which the words or syllables at the end of a line are repeated as a response in the next line, often for ironic purpose.
- echography — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
- echopraxia — the abnormal repetition of the actions of another person.
- ecphractic — having the property of removing obstructions