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10-letter words containing e, s, h, r

  • cockhorses — Plural form of cockhorse.
  • coheirship — The state of being a coheir.
  • coherences — Plural form of coherence.
  • colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
  • cornetfish — any of several slender fishes of the family Fistulariidae, of tropical seas, having an elongated snout and bony plates instead of scales.
  • cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
  • coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
  • cosherings — (in Ireland) visits to tenants' houses by a chief and his followers, where they would expect to be fed and accommodated
  • cost-share — to share the cost of: to cost-share a joint venture.
  • court shoe — Court shoes are women's shoes that do not cover the top part of the foot and are usually made of plain leather with no design.
  • courthouse — A courthouse is a building in which a court of law meets.
  • crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
  • crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
  • crash diet — a strict diet which is intended to produce drastic results in a relatively short period
  • crash dive — a sudden steep dive from the surface by a submarine
  • crash site — the place where a crash occurred
  • crash team — a medical team with special equipment able to be mobilized quickly to treat cardiac arrest
  • crash test — the act of crashing a vehicle under controlled conditions in order to assess its safety for passengers
  • crash-dive — a rapid dive by a submarine made at a steep angle, especially to avoid attack from a surface vessel or airplane.
  • crawfished — Simple past tense and past participle of crawfish.
  • crib sheet — a sheet containing notes, etc, on a particular subject, used as a study aid
  • crosscheck — to verify (a fact, report, etc) by considering conflicting opinions or consulting other sources
  • crotchless — (of a garment) having a hole cut so as to leave the genitals uncovered.
  • crush zone — The crush zone is the part of a vehicle's bodywork that is designed to absorb the energy in a crash, reducing the amount that is felt by passengers inside the vehicle.
  • cryosphere — All those areas of the Earth where the surface is frozen.
  • curateship — the office or position of a curate
  • cytherea's — Aphrodite: so called because of her birth in the sea near Cythera.
  • dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
  • dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
  • dawn horse — eohippus.
  • dead horse — something that has ceased to be useful or relevant.
  • dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
  • death star — ["Star Wars" film] 1. The AT&T corporate logo, which appears on computers sold by AT&T and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Death Star in the movie. This usage is particularly common among partisans of BSD Unix, who tend to regard the AT&T versions as inferior and AT&T as a bad guy. Copies still circulate of a poster printed by Mt. Xinu showing a starscape with a space fighter labelled 4.2BSD streaking away from a broken AT&T logo wreathed in flames. 2. AT&T's internal magazine, "Focus", uses "death star" to describe an incorrectly done AT&T logo in which the inner circle in the top left is dark instead of light - a frequent result of dark-on-light logo images.
  • deathtraps — Plural form of deathtrap.
  • deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
  • decreaseth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrease.
  • deerhounds — Plural form of deerhound.
  • dehydrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrate.
  • delighters — a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
  • demolisher — One who demolishes.
  • dendrophis — a genus of harmless tree-dwelling snake, of which varieties can be found in South America, India, Australia, Africa, and North America
  • derbyshire — a county of N central England: contains the Peak District and several resorts with mineral springs: the geographical and ceremonial county includes the city of Derby, which became an independent unitary authority in 1997. Administrative centre: Matlock. Pop (excluding Derby city): 743 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Derby city): 2551 sq km (985 sq miles)
  • deschooler — an advocate of deschooling
  • despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
  • destroyeth — Archaic third-person singular form of destroy.
  • devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
  • diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
  • disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
  • discharged — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
  • dischargee — a person who has been discharged, as from military service.
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