10-letter words containing r, h, e, o
- dimorphite — a mineral, arsenic sulfide, As 4 S 3 , yellow-orange in color and similar in its properties to orpiment.
- disherison — disinheritance.
- disheritor — someone who disinherits
- dishonored — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- dishonorer — (American spelling) Alternative form of dishonourer.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogfighter — Person who competes in dogfighting.
- door check — a device, usually hydraulic or pneumatic, for controlling the closing of a door and preventing it from slamming.
- doorhandle — A door handle.
- dorchester — a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels.
- 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.
- dray horse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- drearihood — (obsolete) affliction; dreariness.
- drive home — to cause to penetrate to the fullest extent
- drowsihead — drowsiness.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- each other — Although some insist that each other be used only in reference to two (The two candidates respected each other) and one another in reference to three or more (The three nations threaten one another), in standard practice they are interchangeable. Each other is not restricted to two, nor is one another restricted to three or more. The possessive of each other is each other's; the possessive of one another is one another's.
- earth tone — any of various warm, muted colors ranging basically from neutral to deep brown.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- earthmover — a vehicle, as a bulldozer, for pushing or carrying excavated earth from place to place.
- earthwoman — a female inhabitant or native of the planet Earth.
- earthwomen — Plural form of earthwoman.
- earthworks — Plural form of earthwork.
- earthworms — Plural form of earthworm.
- 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.
- echo verse — a poem in which the words or syllables at the end of a line are repeated as a response in the next line, often for ironic purpose.
- echography — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
- echopraxia — the abnormal repetition of the actions of another person.
- ectomorphs — Plural form of ectomorph.
- ectomorphy — having a thin body build, roughly characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic ectoderm (contrasted with endomorphic, mesomorphic).
- ectotherms — Plural form of ectotherm.
- ectothermy — (biology) The condition of being ectothermic or warm-blooded; the ability to maintain the body's temperature.
- editorship — the office or function of an editor.
- eightscore — one hundred and sixty
- 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)
- embothrium — any evergreen shrub of the genus Embothrium, esp E. coccineum, native to South America but widely cultivated as an ornamental for its scarlet flowers: family Proteaceae
- embouchure — The way in which a player applies the mouth to the mouthpiece of a brass or wind instrument.
- encroached — Simple past tense and past participle of encroach.
- encroacher — One who encroaches.
- encroaches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encroach.
- endomorphs — Plural form of endomorph.
- endorhizal — (of an embryo) having the radical covered by the cotyledon
- endorphins — Plural form of endorphin.
- endosphere — (biology) All the endophytes of a plant.
- endotherms — Plural form of endotherm.
- endothermy — (biology) A form of thermoregulation in which heat is generated by the organism's metabolism.
- enharmonic — Of or relating to notes that are the same in pitch (in modern tuning) though bearing different names (e.g., F sharp and G flat or B and C flat).
- enomotarch — (historical, Ancient Greece) The commander of an enomoty.