12-letter words containing s, h, e, l, d
- dishevelment — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- ditheistical — of or relating to ditheism, ditheistic
- doll's house — a miniature house the scale of children's dolls.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- douglas-home — Alexander Frederick (Baron Home of the Hirsel) 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.
- dress length — a piece of material that is big enough to make a dress from
- dress shield — a fabric or plastic pad for attaching to the inside of the underarm of a woman's garment to protect the garment from being soiled by perspiration.
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- duplex house — a house having separate apartments for two families, especially a two-story house having a complete apartment on each floor and two separate entrances.
- dutch settle — a settle having a back so hinged that it can be lowered onto the arms to form a table.
- dyotheletism — the teaching that Christ had both a divine will and a human will
- endophyllous — enclosed in a leaf or sheath
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- falsehearted — Alternative spelling of false-hearted.
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
- feldspathose — (mineralogy) Containing feldspar.
- fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
- fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- flat-chested — If you describe a woman as flat-chested, you mean that she has small breasts.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flush-decked — having a weather deck flush with the hull.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- glassyheaded — smooth; bald
- golden share — a share in a company that controls at least 51% of the voting rights, esp one retained by the UK government in some privatization issues
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
- hadley chest — a style of chest made c1700 in Massachusetts or Connecticut, having front rails and panels carved in low relief with elaborate tulip and leaf patterns.
- half-dressed — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- hand-selling — a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- headlessness — The state of being headless.
- headlongness — Headlong quality or speed; precipitateness.
- headmasterly — In a manner befitting a headmaster.
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hedge-school — a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
- heedlessness — The state or character of being heedless; inattention; carelessness; thoughtlessness.
- heldentenors — Plural form of heldentenor.
- hemodialyses — Plural form of hemodialysis.
- hemodialysis — dialysis of the blood, especially with an artificial kidney, for the removal of waste products.
- heterostyled — (of a plant) having styles of different forms or lengths in the flowers.
- high hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 42 inches (107 cm) high.
- hobbledehoys — Plural form of hobbledehoy.
- hollingshead — Holinshed.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.