11-letter words containing h, e, d, r
- death chair — electric chair.
- death grant — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a grant payable to a relative, executor, etc, after the death of a person
- death march — a long-distance forced march, usually undertaken by prisoners, on which a lot of the marchers die
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- decahydrate — a hydrate that contains ten molecules of water, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- deciphering — Present participle of decipher.
- decoherence — the process in which a system's behaviour changes from that which can be explained by quantum mechanics to that which can be explained by classical mechanics
- deep throat — an anonymous source of secret information
- dehortation — an exhortation against a course of action
- dehortatory — intended to dissuade from a course of action
- dehydrating — Present participle of dehydrate.
- dehydration — the act or process of dehydrating.
- dehydrators — Plural form of dehydrator.
- demi-hunter — a watch having a hinged case with a hole in the lid permitting the time to be seen even when the lid is closed.
- demographer — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- dendrachate — a variety of agate with black or brown tree-like markings, caused by impurities
- dendroglyph — the art of carving in the bark of a living tree, esp as practised by the aboriginal peoples of New Zealand
- dendrophile — One who loves trees.
- dermography — a type of marking on the skin, whether in the form of writing or pictures, supposedly of psychic origin, similar to stigmata except for being more short-lived
- derrickhand — A derrickhand is a member of the drilling crew who works on a platform above the rig floor and handles the drillpipe.
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- diamorphine — heroin.
- diaper rash — (in babies) any irritation to the skin around the genitals, anus, or buttocks, usually caused by contact with urine or excrement
- diaphoreses — perspiration, especially when artificially induced.
- diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- dinner hour — lunch hour
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- diphtheroid — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
- diphycercal — having a tail or caudal fin with the spinal column extending horizontally to the end of the tail, characteristic of lungfish, several other primitive fishes, and the juvenile stage of modern bony fishes.
- disenshroud — to free from a shroud
- disenthrall — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disenthrone — to dethrone.
- dish aerial — a microwave aerial, used esp in radar, radio telescopes, and satellite broadcasting, consisting of a parabolic reflector
- disheartens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dishearten.
- dishearting — Present participle of disheart.
- dishonoured — Simple past tense and past participle of dishonour.
- dishonourer — One who dishonours.
- dishwashers — Plural form of dishwasher.
- disinherits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disinherit.
- dispatchers — Plural form of dispatcher.
- disthronize — to dethrone
- ditchdigger — a worker whose occupation is digging ditches, especially with pick and shovel.
- do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation