12-letter words containing h, o
- diarthrodial — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- 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
- diazomethane — a yellow odourless explosive gas, used as a methylating agent. Formula: CH2:N:N
- dichotically — in a dichotic manner
- dichotomised — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomise.
- dichotomized — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomize Having been divided into dichotomous parts.
- dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- die horribly — (jargon) The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- 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.
- diphthongize — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
- 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
- do away with — from this or that place; off: to go away.
- do honour to — to pay homage to
- do the lolly — to lose one's temper
- do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- dodecahedral — Having twelve plane surfaces.
- dodecahedron — a solid figure having 12 faces.
- dodecaphonic — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- 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.
- dolphin kick — (in the butterfly stroke) a kick in which the legs move up and down together, with the knees bent on the upswing.
- dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
- donald knuth — (person) Donald E. Knuth, the author of the TeX document formatting system, Metafont its font-design program and the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of algorithms, "The Art of Computer Programming". Knuth suggested the name "Backus-Naur Form" and was also involved in the SOL simulation language, and developed the WEB literate programming system. See also MIX, Turingol.
- doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
- dorothea dix — Dorothea Lynde [lind] /lɪnd/ (Show IPA), (Dorothy) 1802–87, U.S. educator and social reformer.
- double cloth — a cloth used in overcoating, blankets, brocade, etc., made by interweaving two physically discrete fabrics at various points in the pattern by bringing warp and fill yarns from each through the other to be worked on the opposite face of the compound fabric.
- double dutch — a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.
- double helix — the spiral arrangement of the two complementary strands of DNA.
- double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double-check — a simultaneous check by two pieces in which the moving of one piece to give check also results in discovering a check by another piece.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable