10-letter words containing h, r, d, i, a
- chromatoid — Resembling chromatin.
- clavichord — A clavichord is a musical instrument rather like a small piano. When you press the keys, small pieces of metal come up and hit the strings. Clavichords were especially popular during the eighteenth century.
- cotehardie — (in the Middle Ages) a close-fitting outer garment with long sleeves, hip-length for men and full-length for women, often laced or buttoned down the front or back.
- crash diet — a strict diet which is intended to produce drastic results in a relatively short period
- crash dive — a sudden steep dive from the surface by a submarine
- crash-dive — a rapid dive by a submarine made at a steep angle, especially to avoid attack from a surface vessel or airplane.
- crawfished — Simple past tense and past participle of crawfish.
- crib death — Crib death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- crithidial — relating to a developmental stage in protozoan parasites of the trypanosome group, now more commonly referred to as the epimastigote stage
- dairy herd — a herd of cows producing milk
- dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
- dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
- deck chair — A deck chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deck chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
- deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
- dhaulagiri — a mountain in W central Nepal, in the Himalayas. Height: 8172 m (26 810 ft)
- diachronic — of, relating to, or studying the development of a phenomenon through time; historical
- diagraphic — descriptive; relating to illustration by drawing or graphics
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diaphragms — Plural form of diaphragm.
- diarrhetic — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- diarrhoeal — Standard spelling of diarrheal.
- diathermal — of or relating to diathermy
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- dichromacy — The quality of having two independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.
- dichromasy — Alternative spelling of dichromacy.
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dictagraph — Alt form dictograph.
- dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
- diphtheria — a febrile, infectious disease caused by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the air passages, especially the throat.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- discharged — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- dischargee — a person who has been discharged, as from military service.
- discharger — Someone or something that discharges something, such as pollution or a firearm.
- discharges — Plural form of discharge.
- disencharm — To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
- disenthral — disenthrall.
- disgarnish — to remove garnish or furnishings from
- dish gravy — meat juices, as from a roast, served as a gravy without seasoning or thickening.
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.
- dishearted — Simple past tense and past participle of disheart.
- dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- dishwasher — a person who washes dishes.
- disinthral — (transitive) To set free from thraldom or oppression.
- disk crash — the failure of a disk storage system, usually resulting from the read-write head touching the moving disk surface and causing mechanical damage
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- distraught — distracted; deeply agitated.
- ditchwater — water, especially stagnant and dirty water, that has collected in a ditch.
- dithyrambs — Plural form of dithyramb.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees