11-letter words containing h, e, d, r, a
- dishearting — Present participle of disheart.
- dishwashers — Plural form of dishwasher.
- dispatchers — Plural form of dispatcher.
- do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
- dog handler — a member of the police force, a security organization, etc, who works in collaboration with a specially trained dog
- dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- door charge — an entrance fee.
- door handle — doorknob.
- downhearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- doxographer — a person who collects the opinions and conjectures of ancient Greek philosophers
- dragon-head — dragonhead.
- draughtiest — Superlative form of draughty.
- draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
- draw weight — the measured force, in foot-pounds, stored by an archery bow when fully drawn.
- dreadnaught — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drive shaft — a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.
- drop hammer — drop forge.
- dunderheads — Plural form of dunderhead.
- durum wheat — a wheat, Triticum turgidum, the grain of which yields flour used in making pasta.
- dutch treat — a meal or entertainment for which each person pays his or her own expenses.
- earth lodge — a circular, usually dome-shaped dwelling of certain North American Indians, made of posts and beams covered variously with branches, grass, sod, or earth and having a central opening in the roof, a tamped earth floor, and frequently a vestibule.
- enchondroma — A cartilage cyst found in the bone marrow.
- endothermal — Endothermic.
- enheartened — Simple past tense and past participle of enhearten.
- enneahedron — a solid figure having nine plane faces
- enthralldom — The act of enthralling, or the state of being enthralled; slavery; bondage.
- ex cathedra — with authority
- exhilarated — Simple past tense and past participle of exhilarate.
- face-harden — to harden the surface of (metal), as by chilling or casehardening.
- fair-haired — having light-colored hair.
- far-fetched — improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
- far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- featheredge — an edge that thins out like a feather.
- featherhead — featherbrain.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- fire hazard — an object, building etc that could easily catch fire or cause a fire and thereby endanger life
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- flapperhood — (in the 1920s) the condition of flappers, the state of being a flapper
- flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.