12-letter words containing h, s, d
- coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
- crosschecked — Simple past tense and past participle of crosscheck.
- cryptorchids — Plural form of cryptorchid.
- customs shed — a large building in which customs officers carry out customs inspections
- cyanohydrins — Plural form of cyanohydrin.
- dall's sheep — a white-haired wild sheep, Ovis dalli, of mountainous regions of northwestern North America, having curved horns.
- damselfishes — Plural form of damselfish.
- daniel shays — Daniel, 1747–1825, American Revolutionary War soldier: leader of a popular insurrection (Shays' Rebellion) in Massachusetts 1786–87.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- dasyphyllous — (of leaves) hairy or woolly
- data exhaust — unstructured information or data that is a by-product of the online activities of Internet users: Collecting and analyzing data exhaust can provide valuable insight into the purchasing habits of consumers.
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- de-emphasize — to remove emphasis from
- death camass — any liliaceous plant of the genus Zygadenus (or Zigadenus), of the western US, that is poisonous to livestock, esp sheep
- death duties — Death duties were a tax which had to be paid on the money and property of someone who had died. This tax is now called inheritance tax.
- death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- death throes — The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends.
- death's-head — a human skull or a representation of one
- deathmatches — Plural form of deathmatch.
- deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- decahydrates — Plural form of decahydrate.
- deemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of deemphasize.
- deemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deemphasize.
- deep-chested — having a broad, strong-looking upper body
- dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
- dehumidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumidify.
- demographers — Plural form of demographer.
- 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.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- desulphurize — to free or become free from sulphur
- detachedness — the quality of being detached or separated
- devilishness — The state or quality of being devilish.
- 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.
- dilettantish — a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
- diminishable — That may be diminished.
- diminishment — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- ding an sich — thing-in-itself.
- 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.