11-letter words containing h, e, d
- dead weight — A dead weight is a load which is surprisingly heavy and difficult to lift.
- dead-headed — a person who attends a performance, sports event, etc., or travels on a train, airplane, etc., without having paid for a ticket, especially a person using a complimentary ticket or free pass.
- dead-smooth — noting a double-cut metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness.
- dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- death adder — a venomous Australian elapid snake, Acanthophis antarcticus, resembling an adder
- death angel — Azrael.
- 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 house — the section of a prison containing an execution chamber and the cells in which persons condemned to die are housed in the days just before their execution
- death knell — something that heralds death or destruction
- death march — a long-distance forced march, usually undertaken by prisoners, on which a lot of the marchers die
- death metal — a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extreme speed and lyrics dealing with violence, satanism, etc
- death squad — Death squads are groups of people who operate illegally and carry out the killing of people such as their political opponents or criminals.
- death taxes — Death taxes were a tax which had to be paid on the money and property of someone who had died. This tax is now called inheritance tax.
- deathlessly — In a deathless manner.
- deathliness — The state or quality of being deathly.
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- debauchedly — In a debauched manner.
- debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- decahydrate — a hydrate that contains ten molecules of water, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- decathletes — Plural form of decathlete.
- deccan hemp — kenaf.
- deciphering — Present participle of decipher.
- declutching — Present participle of declutch.
- 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
- deemphasize — to place less emphasis upon; reduce in importance, size, scope, etc.: The university de-emphasized intercollegiate football.
- deep throat — an anonymous source of secret information
- default.htm — index.html
- deganawidah — ("The Peacemaker") flourished 1550–1600, Huron prophet, cofounder of the Iroquois Confederacy.
- dehortation — an exhortation against a course of action
- dehortatory — intended to dissuade from a course of action
- dehumanised — Past participle of dehumanise.
- dehumanises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumanise.
- dehumanized — Past participle of dehumanize.
- dehumanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumanize.
- dehydrating — Present participle of dehydrate.
- dehydration — the act or process of dehydrating.
- dehydrators — Plural form of dehydrator.
- dehypnotize — to bring out of the hypnotic state
- deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
- delhi belly — illness resulting from food-borne parasites, esp as suffered by visitors to India
- delightable — (obsolete) Delightful.
- delightedly — highly pleased.
- delightfull — Archaic form of delightful.
- delightless — not offering delight
- delightsome — highly pleasing; delightful.
- delphically — in an ambiguous manner; obscurely