9-letter words containing h, e, d
- douchebag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- doughface — a Northerner who sympathized with the South during the controversies over new territories and slavery before the Civil War.
- doughlike — Resembling dough.
- doughtier — Comparative form of doughty.
- dovehouse — A dovecote.
- dovzhenko — Alexander P [uh-lyi-ksahndr] /ʌ lyɪˈksɑndr/ (Show IPA), 1894–1956, Russian motion-picture director.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- down home — of, relating to, or exhibiting the simple, familiar, or folksy qualities associated with one's family or with rural areas, especially of the southern U.S.: down-home cooking; down-home hospitality.
- down-home — of, relating to, or exhibiting the simple, familiar, or folksy qualities associated with one's family or with rural areas, especially of the southern U.S.: down-home cooking; down-home hospitality.
- downweigh — (transitive) To weigh or press down; depress; cause to sink or prevent from rising.
- drag shoe — a type of braking device on a vehicle
- dratchell — a scruffy woman; a slut; a drab
- draughted — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughter — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- drawshave — drawknife.
- drawsheet — a narrow sheet, often used on hospital beds, placed under a patient's buttocks and often over a rubber sheet, that can easily be removed if soiled.
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dreamhole — a light-admitting hole in a tower
- drenching — to wet thoroughly; soak.
- drillhole — a hole drilled in the ground, usually for exploratory purposes
- droshkies — Plural form of droshky.
- drumheads — Plural form of drumhead.
- duchesses — the wife or widow of a duke.
- duckshove — to evade (responsibility or an issue)
- duckwheat — India wheat.
- dung heap — a heap of dung
- duotheism — Belief in and worship in two deities, usually framed as a god and goddess of roughly equal power.
- duotheist — A person who adheres to duotheism.
- dust head — a habitual user of angel dust.
- dustsheet — A large sheet which is draped over furniture as protection from dust.
- dutch elm — a widely planted hybrid elm tree, Ulmus hollandica, with spreading branches and a short trunk
- dutch hoe — a type of hoe in which the head consists of a two-edged cross-blade attached to two prongs or of a single pressing of this shape
- dyschezia — Difficult or painful defecation.
- dysphemia — any impairment in the ability to speak.
- dysthesia — an unusual or disagreeable feeling in or on the body compared to crawling or burning
- dysthetic — relating to dysthesia
- dyushambe — a former name of Dushanbe.
- earth day — environmental awareness day
- earth-god — a god of fertility and vegetation.
- earthward — Also, earthwards. toward the earth.
- echeloned — Simple past tense and past participle of echelon.
- echidnine — the essential element contained in the poison of certain snakes or the poisonous secretion itself
- echinoids — Plural form of echinoid.
- echiuroid — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Echiuroidea, found in sand and mud of tropical and subtropical seas, having at the mouth a ciliated, often elongated prostomium.
- echo word — a word that is echoic (sense 2), or onomatopoeic
- ecohazard — any substance or activity that poses a threat to a habitat or an environment: Off-the-road motorcycling is an ecohazard to fragile desert habitats.
- edgeworth — Maria, 1767–1849, English novelist.
- edinburgh — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- eggheaded — of or befitting an egghead.