10-letter words containing h, i, e, d
- death wish — A death wish is a conscious or unconscious desire to die or be killed.
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- decathexis — 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.
- deciphered — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- decipherer — A person who deciphers.
- deck chair — A deck chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deck chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
- deck light — a skylight for a 'tween deck, built flush with the upper deck.
- deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
- deemphasis — Alternative spelling of de-emphasis.
- 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.
- dehumidify — to remove water from (something, esp the air)
- deinothere — a member of the genus Deinotherium
- delighters — a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
- delighteth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of delight.
- delightful — If you describe something or someone as delightful, you mean they are very pleasant.
- delighting — a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
- delivereth — Archaic third-person singular form of deliver.
- 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.
- demolished — to lay waste to; ruin utterly: The fire demolished the area.
- demolisher — One who demolishes.
- demolishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demolish.
- 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.
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- depot ship — a ship providing supplies and facilities for other vessels or naval bases
- derbyshire — a county of N central England: contains the Peak District and several resorts with mineral springs: the geographical and ceremonial county includes the city of Derby, which became an independent unitary authority in 1997. Administrative centre: Matlock. Pop (excluding Derby city): 743 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Derby city): 2551 sq km (985 sq miles)
- deshabille — the state of being partly or carelessly dressed
- 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.
- devilishly — of, like, or befitting a devil; diabolical; fiendish.
- 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.
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diaphyseal — the shaft of a long bone.
- diarrhetic — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- diarrhoeal — Standard spelling of diarrheal.
- diathermal — of or relating to diathermy
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- dichloride — a compound in which two atoms of chlorine are combined with another atom or group
- dichlorine — (chemistry, in combination) Two atoms of chlorine in a molecule.
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dick-heads — dick (def 3).