11-letter words containing h, e, d, r
- 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.
- dope pusher — pusher (def 2).
- dorset horn — one of an English breed of sheep having a close-textured, medium-length wool.
- dorsetshire — a county in S England. 1024 sq. mi. (2650 sq. km).
- dower chest — a Pennsylvania Dutch hope chest bearing the initials of the owner.
- dower house — the dwelling that is intended for or occupied by the widowed mother of the owner of an ancestral estate.
- downhearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- downlighter — Downlight.
- 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.
- dress shirt — a man's shirt worn for formal or semiformal evening dress, usually having French cuffs and a stiff or pleated front to be fastened with studs.
- dress shoes — formal shoes for wearing with evening dress
- 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.
- dronishness — the quality or capacity to drone
- drop behind — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drop hammer — drop forge.
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
- drug pusher — someone who encourages others to take illegal drugs and who makes money supplying illegal drugs
- 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.
- dystrophies — Plural form of dystrophy.
- 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.
- echinoderms — Plural form of echinoderm.
- edrophonium — a substance, C 10 H 16 BrNO, used to reverse certain muscle-relaxing agents, such as tubocurarine, in surgical procedures: also used in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
- eichendorff — Joseph (ˈjoːzɛf), Freiherr von. 1788–1857, German poet and novelist, regarded as one of the greatest German romantic lyricists
- enchiridion — A book containing essential information on a subject.
- enchondroma — A cartilage cyst found in the bone marrow.
- endomorphic — Of or pertaining to an endomorph.
- endothermal — Endothermic.
- endothermic — (of a reaction or process) accompanied by or requiring the absorption of heat.
- endotrophic — obtaining nourishment from within another plant
- enheartened — Simple past tense and past participle of enhearten.
- enneahedron — a solid figure having nine plane faces
- enshrouding — Present participle of enshroud.
- enthralldom — The act of enthralling, or the state of being enthralled; slavery; bondage.
- ephemerides — Plural form of ephemeris.
- epitrochoid — A geometric curve traced by a fixed point on one circle which rotates around the perimeter of another circle. Examples include the shape of the Wankel engine.
- ethelred ii — known as Ethelred the Unready. ?968–1016 ad, king of England (978–1016). He was temporarily deposed by the Danish king Sweyn (1013) but was recalled on Sweyn's death (1014)
- euhemerized — Simple past tense and past participle of euhemerize.