10-letter words containing r, h, o, d
- 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.
- dolichurus — a dactylic hexameter characterized by a redundant syllable at the end
- dollarfish — butterfish.
- dollarship — the fact of being denominated in dollars
- door chain — a short chain with a removable slide fitting that can be attached between the inside of a door and the doorjamb to prevent the door from being opened more than a few inches without the chain being removed.
- 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.
- dough bird — the Eskimo curlew.
- doukhobors — Dukhobors
- downgrowth — something that grows or has grown in a downward direction: The posterior pituitary is a downgrowth of the brain.
- downhiller — a skier who competes in downhill races, especially in the downhill.
- downthrows — Plural form of downthrow.
- 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.
- 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
- drop cloth — a sheet of cloth, paper, plastic, or the like laid over furniture and floors for protection while a room is being painted or laid over shrubbery while the exterior of a house is being painted.
- dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
- drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
- drowsihead — drowsiness.
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- dutch door — a door consisting of two units horizontally divided so that each half can be opened or closed separately.
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
- dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
- dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- 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.
- editorship — the office or function of an editor.
- encroached — Simple past tense and past participle 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.
- enshrouded — Simple past tense and past participle of enshroud.
- enthraldom — the condition of being enthralled
- fatherhood — the state of being a father.
- fingerhold — something onto which the fingers can hold
- flashboard — a board, or one of a series of boards, as on a milldam, used to increase the depth of the impounded water.
- flourished — to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished.
- flowerhead — (botany) A short, compact cluster of flowers, such as those found in the composites.
- fluohydric — (chemistry) hydrofluoric.