10-letter words containing h, e, d, r, o
- copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
- cotehardie — (in the Middle Ages) a close-fitting outer garment with long sleeves, hip-length for men and full-length for women, often laced or buttoned down the front or back.
- crotcheted — short-tempered
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- 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.
- death roll — a list of the people killed in a war or disaster
- debtholder — (finance) An owner of a financial obligation of another party.
- decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
- deepthroat — To perform fellatio or irrumation on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth.
- deerhounds — Plural form of deerhound.
- dehydrator — a person or thing that dehydrates.
- deinothere — a member of the genus Deinotherium
- 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.
- demolisher — One who demolishes.
- den mother — a woman who supervises meetings of a den of Cub Scouts
- dendrophis — a genus of harmless tree-dwelling snake, of which varieties can be found in South America, India, Australia, Africa, and North America
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- dermotherm — an instrument for measuring skin temperature.
- deschooler — an advocate of deschooling
- destroyeth — Archaic third-person singular form of destroy.
- dethroning — Present participle of dethrone.
- 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
- diarrhoeal — Standard spelling of diarrheal.
- dichloride — a compound in which two atoms of chlorine are combined with another atom or group
- dichlorine — (chemistry, in combination) Two atoms of chlorine in a molecule.
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dihydrogen — (chemistry) The divalent radical formed from two separate hydrogen atoms or ions.
- dimorphite — a mineral, arsenic sulfide, As 4 S 3 , yellow-orange in color and similar in its properties to orpiment.
- disherison — disinheritance.
- disheritor — someone who disinherits
- dishonored — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- dishonorer — (American spelling) Alternative form of dishonourer.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogfighter — Person who competes in dogfighting.
- door check — a device, usually hydraulic or pneumatic, for controlling the closing of a door and preventing it from slamming.
- doorhandle — A door handle.
- dorchester — a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels.
- downhiller — a skier who competes in downhill races, especially in the downhill.
- 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.
- drive home — to cause to penetrate to the fullest extent
- drowsihead — drowsiness.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.