10-letter words containing h, e, n, i
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- dehiscence — a splitting open, as of a pod or anther, along definite structural lines
- dehumanise — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- dehumanize — If you say that something dehumanizes people, you mean it takes away from them good human qualities such as kindness, generosity, and independence.
- deinothere — a member of the genus Deinotherium
- delighting — a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
- delphinine — a poisonous, white, crystalline alkaloid, C33H45NO9, found in the seeds of certain larkspurs
- delphinium — A delphinium is a garden plant which has a tall stem with blue flowers growing up it.
- delphinoid — a member of the genus Delphinoidea, of which dolphins and porpoises are members
- deminished — Simple past tense and past participle of deminish.
- dendrophis — a genus of harmless tree-dwelling snake, of which varieties can be found in South America, India, Australia, Africa, and North America
- denis howe — (person) Denis B. Howe (1960 -) Editor of the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
- dentiphone — (dated) An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone.
- deshelling — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- dethroning — Present participle of dethrone.
- devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- dichlorine — (chemistry, in combination) Two atoms of chlorine in a molecule.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- didelphian — of or relating to an animal in the Didelphia subclass of mammals
- dienophile — (organic chemistry) A compound that readily reacts with a diene; especially an alkene in the Diels-Alder reaction.
- diethylene — (organic chemistry, in combination) Two ethylene groups in a molecule.
- dihydrogen — (chemistry) The divalent radical formed from two separate hydrogen atoms or ions.
- diminished — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- diminishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of diminish.
- dipchemeng — Diploma in Chemical Engineering
- diphenamid — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 16 H 17 ON, used to control weed growth on lawns and various croplands.
- diphosgene — a colorless liquid, C 2 Cl 4 O 2 , usually derived from methyl formate or methyl chloroformate by chlorination: a World War I poison gas now used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- disenchain — to set (a person) free from restraint
- disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disencharm — To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
- disenthral — disenthrall.
- dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disherison — disinheritance.
- dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
- dishonored — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- dishonorer — (American spelling) Alternative form of dishonourer.
- disinherit — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- disphenoid — bisphenoid.
- displenish — to remove furnishings or supplies from
- ditherings — Plural form of dithering.
- dithionate — a salt of dithionic acid.
- dithionite — any salt of dithionous acid
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- docentship — privatdocent.
- douchiness — (slang, derogatory) The quality of being douchey or douchy; objectionableness.