10-letter words containing s, h, a, d, e
- crawfished — Simple past tense and past participle of crawfish.
- dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
- daisywheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- dall sheep — a wild sheep (Ovis dalli) with white hair and long spiral horns, living in the mountains of NW North America
- damselfish — any small tropical percoid fish of the family Pomacentridae, having a brightly coloured deep compressed body
- dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
- datasheets — Plural form of datasheet.
- dauphiness — dauphine.
- dawn horse — eohippus.
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- dead horse — something that has ceased to be useful or relevant.
- dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
- death mask — A death mask is a model of someone's face, which is made from a mould that was taken of their face soon after they died.
- death seat — the seat beside the driver of a vehicle
- death star — ["Star Wars" film] 1. The AT&T corporate logo, which appears on computers sold by AT&T and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Death Star in the movie. This usage is particularly common among partisans of BSD Unix, who tend to regard the AT&T versions as inferior and AT&T as a bad guy. Copies still circulate of a poster printed by Mt. Xinu showing a starscape with a space fighter labelled 4.2BSD streaking away from a broken AT&T logo wreathed in flames. 2. AT&T's internal magazine, "Focus", uses "death star" to describe an incorrectly done AT&T logo in which the inner circle in the top left is dark instead of light - a frequent result of dark-on-light logo images.
- death wish — A death wish is a conscious or unconscious desire to die or be killed.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- deathcamas — any of various plants (genus Zigadenus) of the lily family, with grasslike basal leaves and clusters of greenish or white flowers: often poisonous to sheep
- deathtraps — Plural form of deathtrap.
- debauchees — Plural form of debauchee.
- decathexis — to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
- decreaseth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrease.
- deemphasis — Alternative spelling of de-emphasis.
- dehumanise — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- dehydrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrate.
- deshabille — the state of being partly or carelessly dressed
- despatched — Simple past tense and past participle of despatch.
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- despatches — Plural form of despatch.
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diaphyseal — the shaft of a long bone.
- dick-heads — dick (def 3).
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- discharged — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- dischargee — a person who has been discharged, as from military service.
- discharger — Someone or something that discharges something, such as pollution or a firearm.
- discharges — Plural form of discharge.
- 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.
- dishabille — the state of being dressed in a careless, disheveled, or disorderly style or manner; undress.
- dishearted — Simple past tense and past participle of disheart.
- dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- dishwasher — a person who washes dishes.
- dispatched — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.