10-letter words containing h, o, d, i, n
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- dichlorine — (chemistry, in combination) Two atoms of chlorine in a molecule.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dienophile — (organic chemistry) A compound that readily reacts with a diene; especially an alkene in the Diels-Alder reaction.
- dihydrogen — (chemistry) The divalent radical formed from two separate hydrogen atoms or ions.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- 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.
- diphthongs — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
- diphyodont — having two successive sets of teeth, as most mammals.
- disfashion — (obsolete, transitive) To disfigure.
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.
- disherison — disinheritance.
- 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.
- dishorning — Present participle of dishorn.
- disphenoid — bisphenoid.
- dithionate — a salt of dithionic acid.
- dithionite — any salt of dithionous acid
- dithionous — as in dithionous acid
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- do-nothing — a person who chooses to do nothing; a lazy or worthless person.
- docentship — privatdocent.
- 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.
- douchiness — (slang, derogatory) The quality of being douchey or douchy; objectionableness.
- doughiness — the quality or characteristic of being like dough
- dovishness — The quality of being a dove (as opposed to a hawk).
- downhiller — a skier who competes in downhill races, especially in the downhill.
- downlights — Plural form of downlight.
- 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.
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
- echinoderm — any marine animal of the invertebrate phylum Echinodermata, having a radiating arrangement of parts and a body wall stiffened by calcareous pieces that may protrude as spines and including the starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc.
- endolithic — Within rock.
- endophytic — Of or relating to an endophyte.
- endorhizal — (of an embryo) having the radical covered by the cotyledon
- endorphins — Plural form of endorphin.
- endothecia — Plural form of endothecium.
- endothelia — Plural form of endothelium.
- ethanediol — (organic compound) ethylene glycol.
- euphonized — Simple past tense and past participle of euphonize.
- fight down — If you fight down an emotion or a desire, you try very hard not to feel it, show it, or act on it.
- fingerhold — something onto which the fingers can hold
- food chain — hierarchy of organisms
- friendhood — The state, quality, or condition of being a friend or friends.
- good night — enjoyable evening, night
- good thing — (convention) (From the 1930 Sellar and Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Often capitalised; always pronounced as if capitalised. 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: "The Trailblazer's 19.2 Kbaud PEP mode with on-the-fly Lempel-Ziv compression is a Good Thing for sites relaying netnews". 2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later: "Removing the self-modifying code from that shared library would be a Good Thing". 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in "Yacc is a Good Thing", specifically connotes that the thing has drastically reduced a programmer's work load. Opposite: Bad Thing, compare big win.
- good-night — a farewell or leave-taking: He said his good-nights before leaving the party.
- goodnights — Plural form of goodnight.