11-letter words containing s, h, a, d, o
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- dead-smooth — noting a double-cut metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness.
- death house — the section of a prison containing an execution chamber and the cells in which persons condemned to die are housed in the days just before their execution
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- dehydrators — Plural form of dehydrator.
- diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
- diaphoreses — perspiration, especially when artificially induced.
- diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
- diapophyses — Plural form of diapophysis.
- diapophysis — the upper or articular surface of a transverse vertebral process
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- diarthrosis — any freely movable joint, such as the shoulder and hip joints
- diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- diphosphate — a pyrophosphate.
- disc harrow — a harrow with sharp-edged slightly concave discs mounted on horizontal shafts and used to cut clods or debris on the surface of the soil or to cover seed after planting
- discography — a selective or complete list of phonograph recordings, typically of one composer, performer, or conductor.
- discophoran — a member of the Discophora group
- disharmonic — lacking harmony; disharmonious; discordant.
- dishonorary — tending to dishonour or disgrace
- disk harrow — a harrow having a number of sharp-edged, concave disks set at such an angle that as the harrow is drawn along the ground they turn the soil, pulverize it, and destroy weeds.
- diskography — discography.
- do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- drosophilas — Plural form of drosophila.
- dry shampoo — a product in powder or spray form that you can use to clean hair without wetting it
- dwarf shoot — a very thin lateral branch in certain trees.
- dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
- endophagous — relating to endophagy
- enough said — understood
- flash flood — a sudden and destructive rush of water down a narrow gully or over a sloping surface, caused by heavy rainfall.
- flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
- flashfloods — Plural form of flashflood.
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- food shares — investment shares in food companies
- foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
- hadrosaurid — (zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.
- half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.