10-letter words containing h, i, d, a
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dick-heads — dick (def 3).
- dictagraph — Alt form dictograph.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
- didelphian — of or relating to an animal in the Didelphia subclass of mammals
- dimethoate — a highly toxic crystalline compound, C 5 H 12 NO 3 PS 2 , used as an insecticide.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- diphenamid — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 16 H 17 ON, used to control weed growth on lawns and various croplands.
- diphtheria — a febrile, infectious disease caused by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the air passages, especially the throat.
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- discharged — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- dischargee — a person who has been discharged, as from military service.
- discharger — Someone or something that discharges something, such as pollution or a firearm.
- discharges — Plural form of discharge.
- 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.
- disfashion — (obsolete, transitive) To disfigure.
- disgarnish — to remove garnish or furnishings from
- dish gravy — meat juices, as from a roast, served as a gravy without seasoning or thickening.
- dishabille — the state of being dressed in a careless, disheveled, or disorderly style or manner; undress.
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.
- dishdashas — Plural form of dishdasha.
- dishearted — Simple past tense and past participle of disheart.
- dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- dishwasher — a person who washes dishes.
- disinthral — (transitive) To set free from thraldom or oppression.
- disk crash — the failure of a disk storage system, usually resulting from the read-write head touching the moving disk surface and causing mechanical damage
- dispatched — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispatches — Plural form of dispatch.
- dissheathe — to bring out of a sheathe; to unsheathe
- distraught — distracted; deeply agitated.
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- ditchwater — water, especially stagnant and dirty water, that has collected in a ditch.
- dithionate — a salt of dithionic acid.
- dithyrambs — Plural form of dithyramb.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- dittograph — an instance of dittography; a passage containing reduplicated syllables, letters, etc.
- dochmiacal — of or relating to dochmiac verse
- dollarfish — butterfish.
- dollarship — the fact of being denominated in dollars
- door chain — a short chain with a removable slide fitting that can be attached between the inside of a door and the doorjamb to prevent the door from being opened more than a few inches without the chain being removed.
- drag chain — one of a number of chains attached to a hull about to be launched in restricted waters in order to slow its motion by dragging along the bottom.
- dragonfish — any marine fish of the family Bathydraconidae, of Antarctic seas, having an elongated body and flattened head and being biochemically adapted to extremely low temperatures.
- draughtier — Comparative form of draughty.