10-letter words containing h, a, o
- death roll — a list of the people killed in a war or disaster
- death toll — The death toll of an accident, disaster, or war is the number of people who die in it.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- deepthroat — To perform fellatio or irrumation on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth.
- dehydrator — a person or thing that dehydrates.
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- demothball — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- diachronic — of, relating to, or studying the development of a phenomenon through time; historical
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diarrhoeal — Standard spelling of diarrheal.
- dichromacy — The quality of having two independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.
- dichromasy — Alternative spelling of dichromacy.
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
- dimethoate — a highly toxic crystalline compound, C 5 H 12 NO 3 PS 2 , used as an insecticide.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- disfashion — (obsolete, transitive) To disfigure.
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.
- dithionate — a salt of dithionic acid.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- dittograph — an instance of dittography; a passage containing reduplicated syllables, letters, etc.
- dobzhansky — Theodosius (Grigorievich) [gri-gawr-ee-uh-vich,, -gohr-] /grɪˈgɔr i ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈgoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1900–75, U.S. geneticist, born in Russia.
- dochmiacal — of or relating to dochmiac verse
- dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogwatches — Plural form of dogwatch.
- dollarfish — butterfish.
- dollarship — the fact of being denominated in dollars
- door chain — a short chain with a removable slide fitting that can be attached between the inside of a door and the doorjamb to prevent the door from being opened more than a few inches without the chain being removed.
- doorhandle — A door handle.
- douche bag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
- doughfaced — over-persuadable
- downwashes — Plural form of downwash.
- dragonfish — any marine fish of the family Bathydraconidae, of Antarctic seas, having an elongated body and flattened head and being biochemically adapted to extremely low temperatures.
- dragonhead — any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
- dray horse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- drearihood — (obsolete) affliction; dreariness.
- drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
- drowsihead — drowsiness.
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- dual-homed — (networking) A kind of connection to a FDDI network where a host is simultaneously connected to two separate devices in the same FDDI ring. One of the connections becomes active while the other one is automatically blocked. If the first connection fails, the backup link takes over with no perceptible delay. A dual-homed device can tolerate a fault in one of its "homes" whereas a dual-attached device can tolerate a fault in one of the rings.