11-letter words containing h, e, r, o, d
- dower house — the dwelling that is intended for or occupied by the widowed mother of the owner of an ancestral estate.
- downhearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- downlighter — Downlight.
- doxographer — a person who collects the opinions and conjectures of ancient Greek philosophers
- dragon-head — dragonhead.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- dress shoes — formal shoes for wearing with evening dress
- dronishness — the quality or capacity to drone
- drop behind — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drop hammer — drop forge.
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
- dystrophies — Plural form of dystrophy.
- earth lodge — a circular, usually dome-shaped dwelling of certain North American Indians, made of posts and beams covered variously with branches, grass, sod, or earth and having a central opening in the roof, a tamped earth floor, and frequently a vestibule.
- echinoderms — Plural form of echinoderm.
- edrophonium — a substance, C 10 H 16 BrNO, used to reverse certain muscle-relaxing agents, such as tubocurarine, in surgical procedures: also used in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
- eichendorff — Joseph (ˈjoːzɛf), Freiherr von. 1788–1857, German poet and novelist, regarded as one of the greatest German romantic lyricists
- enchiridion — A book containing essential information on a subject.
- enchondroma — A cartilage cyst found in the bone marrow.
- endomorphic — Of or pertaining to an endomorph.
- endothermal — Endothermic.
- endothermic — (of a reaction or process) accompanied by or requiring the absorption of heat.
- endotrophic — obtaining nourishment from within another plant
- enneahedron — a solid figure having nine plane faces
- enshrouding — Present participle of enshroud.
- enthralldom — The act of enthralling, or the state of being enthralled; slavery; bondage.
- epitrochoid — A geometric curve traced by a fixed point on one circle which rotates around the perimeter of another circle. Examples include the shape of the Wankel engine.
- feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
- flapperhood — (in the 1920s) the condition of flappers, the state of being a flapper
- flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- food shares — investment shares in food companies
- footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
- forechecked — Simple past tense and past participle of forecheck.
- forereached — Simple past tense and past participle of forereach.
- foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
- foresighted — Having or using foresight.
- forevouched — previously avowed
- forgathered — Simple past tense and past participle of forgather.
- forge ahead — move forward with determination
- foundership — The condition of having founded something.
- four-handed — involving four hands or players, as a game at cards: Bridge is usually a four-handed game.
- freeholders — Plural form of freeholder.
- freeholding — Property held in freehold.
- french door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- fundholders — Plural form of fundholder.
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- godchildren — Plural form of godchild.
- goddaughter — a female godchild.
- golden horn — an inlet of the Bosporus, in European Turkey: forms the inner part of Istanbul.