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12-letter words containing h, e, d

  • dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • disinherison — Disherison.
  • disinherited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinherit.
  • disinhibited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinhibit.
  • dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
  • dissenterish — having a part of the character or quality of a dissenter
  • ditch-digger — a worker whose occupation is digging ditches, especially with pick and shovel.
  • ditheistical — of or relating to ditheism, ditheistic
  • ditheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
  • divine right — doctrine that king's power was ordained by God
  • do the lolly — to lose one's temper
  • do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • dodecahedral — Having twelve plane surfaces.
  • dodecahedron — a solid figure having 12 faces.
  • dodecaphonic — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
  • doll's house — a miniature house the scale of children's dolls.
  • dorothea dix — Dorothea Lynde [lind] /lɪnd/ (Show IPA), (Dorothy) 1802–87, U.S. educator and social reformer.
  • double cloth — a cloth used in overcoating, blankets, brocade, etc., made by interweaving two physically discrete fabrics at various points in the pattern by bringing warp and fill yarns from each through the other to be worked on the opposite face of the compound fabric.
  • double dutch — a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.
  • double helix — the spiral arrangement of the two complementary strands of DNA.
  • double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
  • double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
  • double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
  • double-check — a simultaneous check by two pieces in which the moving of one piece to give check also results in discovering a check by another piece.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
  • doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
  • doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
  • douglas-home — Alexander Frederick (Baron Home of the Hirsel) 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.
  • down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
  • down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
  • dram refresh — (storage)   The operation which cycles through a DRAM reading each row and writing it back again to compensate for the gradual leakage of charge from the capacitors which store the data. This may be done by the CPU but is often done by a dedicated memory controller.
  • drapery shop — a shop selling fabrics and sewing materials
  • draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
  • dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
  • dreamcatcher — A small hoop containing a horsehair mesh, or a similar construction of string or yarn, decorated with feathers and beads, believed to give its owner good dreams. Dreamcatchers were originally made by American Indians.
  • dress length — a piece of material that is big enough to make a dress from
  • dress shield — a fabric or plastic pad for attaching to the inside of the underarm of a woman's garment to protect the garment from being soiled by perspiration.
  • drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
  • drop shipper — a wholesaler or distributor who conducts business in drop shipments.
  • droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
  • drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
  • drum machine — a device that simulates percussion sounds in various combinations and rhythms, and can alter digitally stored drum sounds or make digital recordings of drum sounds.
  • dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
  • duchesse bed — a bed having a suspended, full-length tester.
  • duncan phyfe — of, relating to, or resembling the furniture made by Duncan Phyfe, especially the earlier pieces in the Sheraton and Directoire styles.
  • dunderheaded — Stupid, foolish.
  • duple rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of disyllabic feet.
  • duplex chain — a roller chain having two sets of rollers linked together, used for heavy-duty applications
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