9-letter words containing h, d, s
- cold fish — If you say that someone is a cold fish, you think that they are unfriendly and unemotional.
- cold shut — A cold shut is a fault in the surface of a piece of metal caused by two streams of molten metal not joining properly when the piece is being cast.
- coldhouse — an unheated greenhouse
- copyholds — Plural form of copyhold.
- cosphered — sharing the same sphere
- crash pad — a place to live or sleep temporarily
- crashland — Alternative form of crash-land.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- crossed-h — a constant used in quantum mechanics, equal to the Planck constant divided by 2π. It has a value of 1.054571596±0.000000078 × 10 −34 joule seconds
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- dabchicks — Plural form of dabchick.
- dachshund — A dachshund is a small dog that has very short legs, a long body, and long ears.
- daghestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- dahabeahs — Plural form of dahabeah.
- daisy ham — a boned and smoked piece of pork from the pig's shoulder
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- dashboard — The dashboard in a car is the panel facing the driver's seat where most of the instruments and switches are.
- dashingly — In a dashing manner.
- dashlight — a light illuminating the dashboard of an automobile, esp at night
- datasheet — A document summarizing the performance and other technical characteristics of a product.
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- day shift — a group of workers who work a shift during the daytime in an industry or occupation where a night shift or a back shift is also worked
- daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
- deadheads — Plural form of deadhead.
- deadhouse — a mortuary
- deathbeds — Plural form of deathbed.
- deathless — immortal, esp because of greatness; everlasting
- deathsman — an executioner
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- decastich — a poem that consists of ten lines
- deciphers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decipher.
- deck shoe — Deck shoes are flat casual shoes made of canvas or leather.
- deckhouse — a houselike cabin on the deck of a ship
- deep-dish — prepared and served in a deep pan or dish
- degarnish — to remove ornamentation from (something)
- dehiscent — (of fruits, anthers, etc) opening spontaneously to release seeds or pollen
- delphinus — a small constellation in the N hemisphere, between Pegasus and Sagitta
- demijohns — Plural form of demijohn.
- deplenish — to deprive of contents, such as furniture, stock, etc
- depthless — immeasurably deep; fathomless
- dervishes — Plural form of dervish.
- deschamps — Émile (French emil), full name Émile Deschamps de Saint-Armand. 1791–1871, French poet, dramatist, and librettist: a leading figure in the French romantic movement
- deschutes — river in central and N Oreg., flowing from the Cascade Range north into the Columbia River: c. 250 mi (402 km)
- deshelled — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- deshuffle — (signal processing) To restore shuffled data to its original ordered state.
- despiseth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despise.
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.