10-letter words containing n, s, h
- diphosgene — a colorless liquid, C 2 Cl 4 O 2 , usually derived from methyl formate or methyl chloroformate by chlorination: a World War I poison gas now used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- diphthongs — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- disenchain — to set (a person) free from restraint
- disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disencharm — To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
- disenthral — disenthrall.
- disfashion — (obsolete, transitive) To disfigure.
- disfurnish — to deprive of something with which a person or thing is furnished; divest of possessions; strip.
- disgarnish — to remove garnish or furnishings from
- dish night — (formerly) a night, usually held weekly, when a movie theater distributed a free dish or piece of chinaware to each patron as an inducement to visit the theater.
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.
- dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disherison — disinheritance.
- dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
- dishonored — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- dishonorer — (American spelling) Alternative form of dishonourer.
- dishorning — Present participle of dishorn.
- disinherit — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- disinhibit — Make (someone or something) less inhibited.
- disinthral — (transitive) To set free from thraldom or oppression.
- disphenoid — bisphenoid.
- displenish — to remove furnishings or supplies from
- ditherings — Plural form of dithering.
- dithionous — as in dithionous acid
- dobzhansky — Theodosius (Grigorievich) [gri-gawr-ee-uh-vich,, -gohr-] /grɪˈgɔr i ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈgoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1900–75, U.S. geneticist, born in Russia.
- docentship — privatdocent.
- douchiness — (slang, derogatory) The quality of being douchey or douchy; objectionableness.
- doughiness — the quality or characteristic of being like dough
- dovishness — The quality of being a dove (as opposed to a hawk).
- downlights — Plural form of downlight.
- downthrows — Plural form of downthrow.
- downwashes — Plural form of downwash.
- dragonfish — any marine fish of the family Bathydraconidae, of Antarctic seas, having an elongated body and flattened head and being biochemically adapted to extremely low temperatures.
- duennaship — The role or status of duenna.
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
- 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.
- 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.
- east haven — a town in S Connecticut, near New Haven.
- ebbinghaus — Hermann (ˈhɛrman). 1850–1909, German experimental psychologist who undertook the first systematic and large-scale studies of memory and devised tests using nonsense syllables
- echinaceas — Plural form of echinacea.
- ecphonesis — the use of an exclamatory phrase, as in “O tempore! O mores!”.
- 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)
- encashment — (finance) The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.
- enchanters — Plural form of enchanter.
- enchiladas — Plural form of enchilada.