9-letter words containing h, o, e, d
- chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
- chorussed — Simple past tense and past participle of chorus.
- chudskoye — Lakelake on the Estonian-Russian border: with its S extension, Lake Pskov, c. 1,400 sq mi (3,626 sq km)
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- codeshare — (aviation) Agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
- codfishes — Plural form of codfish.
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohobated — to distill again from the same or a similar substance, as by pouring a distilled liquid back upon the matter remaining in the vessel, or upon another mass of similar matter.
- cokeheads — Plural form of cokehead.
- coldhouse — an unheated greenhouse
- cosphered — sharing the same sphere
- cot death — Cot death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- crocheted — made with a crochet hook
- crossed-h — a constant used in quantum mechanics, equal to the Planck constant divided by 2π. It has a value of 1.054571596±0.000000078 × 10 −34 joule seconds
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- dado head — a rotary cutter composed of several sawlike blades side by side, for cutting dadoes in wood.
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- deadhouse — a mortuary
- dear john — a letter from a woman informing her boyfriend or fiancé that she is ending their relationship or informing her husband that she wants a divorce: Nothing is worse for a soldier's morale than getting a Dear John.
- death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
- deathblow — a thing or event that destroys life or hope, esp suddenly
- debouched — Simple past tense and past participle of debouche.
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- deck hook — hook1 (def 16).
- deck shoe — Deck shoes are flat casual shoes made of canvas or leather.
- deckhouse — a houselike cabin on the deck of a ship
- decoherer — a device that re-establishes a coherer to usual levels of receptiveness
- deerhound — a very large rough-coated breed of dog of the greyhound type
- dehorning — Present participle of dehorn.
- delaroche — (Hippolyte) Paul. 1797–1859, French painter of portraits and sentimental historical scenes, such as The Children of Edward IV in the Tower (1830)
- demijohns — Plural form of demijohn.
- demophile — A friend of the people.
- dene hole — a hole or shaft excavated in the chalk of southern England or northern France, of uncertain origin and purpose
- dethroned — Simple past tense and past participle of dethrone.
- dethroner — One who dethrones.
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- devoureth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'devour'.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- diaphones — Plural form of diaphone.
- diarrhoea — If someone has diarrhoea, a lot of liquid faeces comes out of their body because they are ill.
- dichroite — cordierite.
- dinothere — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- dishonest — not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief: a dishonest person.
- dishtowel — a towel for drying dishes.
- disposeth — Archaic third-person singular form of dispose.