12-letter words containing h, o, s
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
- dichotomised — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomise.
- dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
- diphosphorus — (chemistry, in combination) two atoms of phosphorus in a compound.
- diphtheroids — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- disco lights — coloured lights that flash on and off in time to the music at a disco etc
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discographic — of or relating to a discography
- discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
- disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
- dishonesties — Plural form of dishonesty.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- dishonouring — Present participle of dishonour.
- disinherison — Disherison.
- disinhibitor — Something that causes a reduction in one's inhibitions; that makes people, or animals act more impulsively.
- dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
- dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
- doll's house — a miniature house the scale of children's dolls.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- douglas hurd — a third-class university degree
- douglas-home — Alexander Frederick (Baron Home of the Hirsel) 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.
- downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- drama school — a college which trains students (who are generally 18+) to act
- drapery shop — a shop selling fabrics and sewing materials
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- drop shipper — a wholesaler or distributor who conducts business in drop shipments.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- duplex house — a house having separate apartments for two families, especially a two-story house having a complete apartment on each floor and two separate entrances.
- dyotheletism — the teaching that Christ had both a divine will and a human will
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- e-thrombosis — a clot in the bloodstream caused by long periods spent being physically inactive at a computer
- earth closet — a type of lavatory in which earth is used to cover excreta
- east chicago — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan, near Chicago.
- east lothian — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
- echinococcus — any of a number of tapeworms of the genus Echinococcus whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals.
- echo sounder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
- echolocators — Plural form of echolocator.