11-letter words containing h, o, r, s
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- cross-match — to test the compatibility of (a donor's and recipient's blood) by checking that the red cells of each do not agglutinate in the other's serum
- cross-patch — a bad-tempered or irritable person.
- crushworthy — (usually, of a, person) Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
- cryophysics — a branch of physics in which phenomena are studied at low temperatures
- ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cystography — radiography of the urinary bladder using a contrast medium
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- dehydrators — Plural form of dehydrator.
- diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
- diaphoreses — perspiration, especially when artificially induced.
- diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- diarthrosis — any freely movable joint, such as the shoulder and hip joints
- diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- disc harrow — a harrow with sharp-edged slightly concave discs mounted on horizontal shafts and used to cut clods or debris on the surface of the soil or to cover seed after planting
- discography — a selective or complete list of phonograph recordings, typically of one composer, performer, or conductor.
- discophoran — a member of the Discophora group
- disenshroud — to free from a shroud
- disenthrone — to dethrone.
- disharmonic — lacking harmony; disharmonious; discordant.
- dishonorary — tending to dishonour or disgrace
- dishonoring — Present participle of dishonor.
- dishonoured — Simple past tense and past participle of dishonour.
- dishonourer — One who dishonours.
- disk harrow — a harrow having a number of sharp-edged, concave disks set at such an angle that as the harrow is drawn along the ground they turn the soil, pulverize it, and destroy weeds.
- diskography — discography.
- disthronize — to dethrone
- do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- dope pusher — pusher (def 2).
- dorset horn — one of an English breed of sheep having a close-textured, medium-length wool.
- dorsetshire — a county in S England. 1024 sq. mi. (2650 sq. km).
- dower chest — a Pennsylvania Dutch hope chest bearing the initials of the owner.
- dower house — the dwelling that is intended for or occupied by the widowed mother of the owner of an ancestral estate.
- dress shoes — formal shoes for wearing with evening dress
- dronishness — the quality or capacity to drone
- drosophilas — Plural form of drosophila.
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
- dry shampoo — a product in powder or spray form that you can use to clean hair without wetting it
- dwarf shoot — a very thin lateral branch in certain trees.
- dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
- dyshidrosis — (medicine) A skin condition characterized by small blisters on the hands or feet.
- dystrophies — Plural form of dystrophy.