11-letter words containing h, d, s
- chrysomonad — any golden-yellow to brown freshwater algae of the class Chrysomonadales (phylum Chrysophyta), living singly or in colonies; blooms may color the water brown.
- churchwards — in the direction of the church
- churchyards — Plural form of churchyard.
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- cladophylls — Plural form of cladophyll.
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- clean hands — freedom from guilt
- clodhoppers — a large heavy shoe or boot
- closed shop — If a factory, shop, or other business is a closed shop, the employees must be members of a particular trade union.
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold shower — shower: in cold water
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- comedy show — a funny programme on TV or radio
- comprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprehend.
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- copperheads — Plural form of copperhead.
- copyholders — Plural form of copyholder.
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- cued speech — a method of communication in which a speaker uses a system of manual cues to aid a lipreader by clarifying potentially ambiguous mouth movements with hand gestures.
- curd cheese — a mild white cheese made from skimmed milk curds, smoother and fattier than cottage cheese
- daisy chain — A daisy chain is a string of daisies that have been joined together by their stems to make a necklace.
- daisy wheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- dampishness — the quality of being dampish
- dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
- dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
- danish blue — a strong-tasting white cheese with blue veins
- danish loaf — a large white loaf with a centre split having the top crust dusted with flour, esp one baked on the sole of the oven
- dasht-e-lut — vast desert region of central and SE Iran, extending southward from the Dasht-e-Kavir
- dasht-i-lut — a desert plateau in central and E central Iran
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- de-emphasis — a reduction in emphasis: There has been de-emphasis on athletic activities at the school.
- dead-smooth — noting a double-cut metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness.
- dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
- death house — the section of a prison containing an execution chamber and the cells in which persons condemned to die are housed in the days just before their execution
- death squad — Death squads are groups of people who operate illegally and carry out the killing of people such as their political opponents or criminals.
- death taxes — Death taxes 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.
- deathlessly — In a deathless manner.
- deathliness — The state or quality of being deathly.
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- decathletes — Plural form of decathlete.
- deemphasize — to place less emphasis upon; reduce in importance, size, scope, etc.: The university de-emphasized intercollegiate football.
- dehumanised — Past participle of dehumanise.
- dehumanises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumanise.
- dehumanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumanize.
- dehydrators — Plural form of dehydrator.