10-letter words containing n, e, h, r
- crocheting — Present participle of crochet.
- crunchable — That can be crunched.
- crunchtime — the tense, critical phase of an activity
- crush zone — The crush zone is the part of a vehicle's bodywork that is designed to absorb the energy in a crash, reducing the amount that is felt by passengers inside the vehicle.
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- ctenophore — any marine invertebrate of the phylum Ctenophora, including the sea gooseberry and Venus's-girdle, whose body bears eight rows of fused cilia, for locomotion
- cypherpunk — A person who uses encryption when accessing a computer network in order to ensure privacy, especially from government authorities.
- dawn horse — eohippus.
- decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
- deerhounds — Plural form of deerhound.
- deinothere — a member of the genus Deinotherium
- den father — (in the Boy Scouts) a man who serves as an adult leader or supervisor of a cub scout den.
- den helder — a port in the W Netherlands, in North Holland province: fortified by Napoleon in 1811; naval station. Pop: 60 000 (2003 est)
- den mother — a woman who supervises meetings of a den of Cub Scouts
- dendrophis — a genus of harmless tree-dwelling snake, of which varieties can be found in South America, India, Australia, Africa, and North America
- dethroning — Present participle of dethrone.
- devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
- dichlorine — (chemistry, in combination) Two atoms of chlorine in a molecule.
- dihydrogen — (chemistry) The divalent radical formed from two separate hydrogen atoms or ions.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- disencharm — To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
- disenthral — disenthrall.
- dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disherison — disinheritance.
- dishonored — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- dishonorer — (American spelling) Alternative form of dishonourer.
- disinherit — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- ditherings — Plural form of dithering.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- doorhandle — A door handle.
- downhiller — a skier who competes in downhill races, especially in the downhill.
- dragonhead — any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
- dude ranch — a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.
- dunderhead — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- dzerzhinsk — a city in the central Russian Federation in Europe, W of Nizhni Novgorod.
- earbashing — a scolding or lengthy and vituperative verbal attack
- earth sign — any of the three astrological signs, Taurus, Virgo, or Capricorn, that are grouped together because of the shared attributes of practicality and interest in material things.
- earth tone — any of various warm, muted colors ranging basically from neutral to deep brown.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- earthiness — of the nature of or consisting of earth or soil.
- earthlings — Plural form of earthling.
- earthshine — the faint illumination of the part of the moon not illuminated by sunlight, as during a crescent phase, caused by the reflection of light from the earth.
- earthwoman — a female inhabitant or native of the planet Earth.
- earthwomen — Plural form of earthwoman.
- echinoderm — any marine animal of the invertebrate phylum Echinodermata, having a radiating arrangement of parts and a body wall stiffened by calcareous pieces that may protrude as spines and including the starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc.
- eisenhower — Dwight David, known as Ike. 1890–1969, US general and Republican statesman; Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force (1943–45) and 34th president of the US (1953–61). He commanded Allied forces in Europe and North Africa (1942), directed the invasion of Italy (1943), and was Supreme Commander of the combined land forces of NATO (1950–52)
- elder hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the nondealer, who has certain advantages in the play
- enchanters — Plural form of enchanter.
- enciphered — Simple past tense and past participle of encipher.
- encroached — Simple past tense and past participle of encroach.