11-letter words containing h, i, e, r
- dehydration — the act or process of dehydrating.
- demi-hunter — a watch having a hinged case with a hole in the lid permitting the time to be seen even when the lid is closed.
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- dendrophile — One who loves trees.
- derrickhand — A derrickhand is a member of the drilling crew who works on a platform above the rig floor and handles the drillpipe.
- diamorphine — heroin.
- diaper rash — (in babies) any irritation to the skin around the genitals, anus, or buttocks, usually caused by contact with urine or excrement
- diaphoreses — perspiration, especially when artificially induced.
- diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- dinner hour — lunch hour
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- diphtheroid — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
- diphycercal — having a tail or caudal fin with the spinal column extending horizontally to the end of the tail, characteristic of lungfish, several other primitive fishes, and the juvenile stage of modern bony fishes.
- disenshroud — to free from a shroud
- disenthrall — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disenthrone — to dethrone.
- dish aerial — a microwave aerial, used esp in radar, radio telescopes, and satellite broadcasting, consisting of a parabolic reflector
- disheartens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dishearten.
- dishearting — Present participle of disheart.
- dishonoured — Simple past tense and past participle of dishonour.
- dishonourer — One who dishonours.
- dishwashers — Plural form of dishwasher.
- disinherits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disinherit.
- dispatchers — Plural form of dispatcher.
- disthronize — to dethrone
- ditchdigger — a worker whose occupation is digging ditches, especially with pick and shovel.
- do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
- dorsetshire — a county in S England. 1024 sq. mi. (2650 sq. km).
- downlighter — Downlight.
- draughtiest — Superlative form of draughty.
- draw weight — the measured force, in foot-pounds, stored by an archery bow when fully drawn.
- dress shirt — a man's shirt worn for formal or semiformal evening dress, usually having French cuffs and a stiff or pleated front to be fastened with studs.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drive shaft — a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.
- 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.
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
- dystrophies — Plural form of dystrophy.
- eames chair — Also called LCM chair. a side chair designed by Charles Eames in 1946, having a slender tubular steel frame with a seat and back of molded plywood panels.
- earlier han — the Han dynasty before a.d. 9.
- early night — If you have an early night, you go to bed early. If you have a late night, you go to bed late.
- earthliness — of or relating to the earth, especially as opposed to heaven; worldly.
- earthmoving — of or relating to earthmovers: earthmoving machinery.
- ecclesiarch — a sacristan, especially of a monastery.
- echinoderms — Plural form of echinoderm.