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9-letter words containing h, e, d

  • crocheted — made with a crochet hook
  • crossed-h — a constant used in quantum mechanics, equal to the Planck constant divided by 2π. It has a value of 1.054571596±0.000000078 × 10 −34 joule seconds
  • crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
  • cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
  • curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
  • cushioned — provided with cushions
  • dado head — a rotary cutter composed of several sawlike blades side by side, for cutting dadoes in wood.
  • daghestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
  • dahabeahs — Plural form of dahabeah.
  • dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
  • dancehall — a style of dance-oriented reggae, originating in the late 1980s
  • darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
  • datasheet — A document summarizing the performance and other technical characteristics of a product.
  • daughters — Plural form of daughter.
  • de-hyphen — a short line (-) used to connect the parts of a compound word or the parts of a word divided for any purpose.
  • dead hand — You can refer to the dead hand of a particular thing when that thing has a bad or depressing influence on a particular situation.
  • dead heat — If a race or contest is a dead heat, two or more competitors are joint winners, or are both winning at a particular moment in the race or contest. In American English, you can say that a race or contest is in a dead heat.
  • dead-head — To dead-head a plant which is flowering means to remove all the dead flowers from it.
  • deadheads — Plural form of deadhead.
  • deadhouse — a mortuary
  • deadlight — a bull's-eye let into the deck or hull of a vessel to admit light to a cabin
  • deal with — When you deal with something or someone that needs attention, you give your attention to them, and often solve a problem or make a decision concerning them.
  • dear john — a letter from a woman informing her boyfriend or fiancé that she is ending their relationship or informing her husband that she wants a divorce: Nothing is worse for a soldier's morale than getting a Dear John.
  • dearheart — A term of affection.
  • death cap — a poisonous woodland saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus, Amanita phalloides, differing from the edible mushroom (Agaricus) only in its white gills (pinkish-brown in Agaricus) and the presence of a volva
  • death cup — a poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita.
  • death ray — an imaginary ray capable of killing
  • death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
  • death tax — a tax on money or property that a person inherits
  • deathbeds — Plural form of deathbed.
  • deathbell — Alternative form of death bell.
  • deathblow — a thing or event that destroys life or hope, esp suddenly
  • deathless — immortal, esp because of greatness; everlasting
  • deathlike — resembling or suggestive of death
  • deathsman — an executioner
  • deathtrap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a deathtrap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
  • deathward — having an inclination or disposition towards death
  • debauched — If you describe someone as debauched, you mean they behave in a way that you think is socially unacceptable, for example because they drink a lot of alcohol or have sex with a lot of people.
  • debauchee — a man who leads a life of reckless drinking, promiscuity, and self-indulgence
  • debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
  • debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
  • debouched — Simple past tense and past participle of debouche.
  • debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
  • dec alpha — (processor)   A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. In February 1996 it was clocked at 200 MHz and in March 1998 at 666 MHz.
  • decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
  • decahedra — plural form of singular decahedron: solid figure with ten plane faces
  • decastich — a poem that consists of ten lines
  • decathect — to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.
  • decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
  • déchéance — the act of forfeiting something
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