10-letter words containing h, i, e, d
- 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.
- dimethoate — a highly toxic crystalline compound, C 5 H 12 NO 3 PS 2 , used as an insecticide.
- diminished — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- diminishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of diminish.
- dimorphite — a mineral, arsenic sulfide, As 4 S 3 , yellow-orange in color and similar in its properties to orpiment.
- diothelete — a believer in diothelism
- diothelism — the doctrine that Christ on earth had two wills, human and divine
- diothelite — a believer in the doctrine of ditheletism
- 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.
- 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.
- diphyletic — of or relating to a taxonomic group of organisms derived from two separate ancestral lines.
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- direct hit — If a place suffers a direct hit, a bomb, bullet, or other missile that has been aimed at it lands exactly in that place, rather than some distance away.
- 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.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- disc wheel — a road wheel of a motor vehicle that has a round pressed disc in place of spokes
- 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.
- dischuffed — (New Zealand, British, informal) Very displeased or unsatisfied.
- discophile — a person who studies and collects phonograph records, especially those of a rare or specialized nature.
- 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.
- dish towel — cloth: for drying dishes
- dishabille — the state of being dressed in a careless, disheveled, or disorderly style or manner; undress.
- dishearted — Simple past tense and past participle of disheart.
- dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disherison — disinheritance.
- disheritor — someone who disinherits
- disheveled — hanging loosely or in disorder; unkempt: disheveled hair.
- 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.
- dishtowels — Plural form of dishtowel.
- dishwasher — a person who washes dishes.
- disinherit — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- disk wheel — a spokeless vehicular wheel, especially on automobiles, having a heavy circular pressed-steel disk mounted on the wheel hub and supporting the tire rim on its outer edge.
- 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.