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10-letter words containing h, e, d, r

  • comprehend — If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it.
  • copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
  • 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.
  • crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
  • crash diet — a strict diet which is intended to produce drastic results in a relatively short period
  • crash dive — a sudden steep dive from the surface by a submarine
  • crash-dive — a rapid dive by a submarine made at a steep angle, especially to avoid attack from a surface vessel or airplane.
  • crawfished — Simple past tense and past participle of crawfish.
  • crib death — Crib death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
  • crotcheted — short-tempered
  • cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
  • dairy herd — a herd of cows producing milk
  • 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.
  • daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
  • dawn horse — eohippus.
  • dead horse — something that has ceased to be useful or relevant.
  • dead march — a piece of solemn funeral music played to accompany a procession, esp at military funerals
  • dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
  • death care — the products, services, and arrangements having to do with funerals and burials.
  • death rate — The death rate is the number of people per thousand who die in a particular area during a particular period of time.
  • death roll — a list of the people killed in a war or disaster
  • death star — ["Star Wars" film] 1. The AT&T corporate logo, which appears on computers sold by AT&T and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Death Star in the movie. This usage is particularly common among partisans of BSD Unix, who tend to regard the AT&T versions as inferior and AT&T as a bad guy. Copies still circulate of a poster printed by Mt. Xinu showing a starscape with a space fighter labelled 4.2BSD streaking away from a broken AT&T logo wreathed in flames. 2. AT&T's internal magazine, "Focus", uses "death star" to describe an incorrectly done AT&T logo in which the inner circle in the top left is dark instead of light - a frequent result of dark-on-light logo images.
  • death trap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a death trap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
  • deathtraps — Plural form of deathtrap.
  • debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
  • debtholder — (finance) An owner of a financial obligation of another party.
  • decadrachm — a silver coin of ancient Greece equal to 10 drachmas.
  • decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
  • deciphered — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • decipherer — A person who deciphers.
  • deck chair — A deck chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deck chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
  • deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
  • decreaseth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrease.
  • deepthroat — To perform fellatio or irrumation on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth.
  • deerhounds — Plural form of deerhound.
  • dehydrated — (of organisms) deprived of vital water or moisture
  • dehydrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrate.
  • dehydrator — a person or thing that dehydrates.
  • deinothere — a member of the genus Deinotherium
  • delighters — a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
  • delivereth — Archaic third-person singular form of deliver.
  • 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 father — (in the Boy Scouts) a man who serves as an adult leader or supervisor of a cub scout den.
  • den helder — a port in the W Netherlands, in North Holland province: fortified by Napoleon in 1811; naval station. Pop: 60 000 (2003 est)
  • 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
  • der fuhrer — Adolf [ad-olf,, ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈæd ɒlf,, ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), (Adolf Schicklgruber"der Führer") 1889–1945, Nazi dictator of Germany, born in Austria: Chancellor 1933–45; dictator 1934–45.
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