10-letter words containing s, h
- descendeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of descend.
- deschooled — Simple past tense and past participle of deschool.
- deschooler — an advocate of deschooling
- deshabille — the state of being partly or carelessly dressed
- deshelling — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- desk check — (programming) To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers - though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be. Compare dry run, eyeball search, vdiff, vgrep.
- despatched — Simple past tense and past participle of despatch.
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- despatches — Plural form of despatch.
- destroyeth — Archaic third-person singular form of destroy.
- devilishly — of, like, or befitting a devil; diabolical; fiendish.
- devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diaphragms — Plural form of diaphragm.
- diaphyseal — the shaft of a long bone.
- diaschisis — a disturbance or loss of function in one part of the brain due to a localized injury in another part.
- dichlorvos — an organophosphate insecticide used to control garden and household pests and to treat worm infections
- dichromasy — Alternative spelling of dichromacy.
- dichromism — the state of being dichromic
- dick-heads — dick (def 3).
- diddlyshit — diddly (def 1).
- diminished — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- diminishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of diminish.
- dimorphism — Zoology. the occurrence of two forms distinct in structure, coloration, etc., among animals of the same species. Compare sexual dimorphism.
- dimorphous — having two forms.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- diorthosis — the act or process of straightening something, esp a deformity in something
- diothelism — the doctrine that Christ on earth had two wills, human and divine
- dip switch — computing: on-off switch
- diphosgene — a colorless liquid, C 2 Cl 4 O 2 , usually derived from methyl formate or methyl chloroformate by chlorination: a World War I poison gas now used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- diphthongs — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
- diphyllous — having two leaves.
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- disc wheel — a road wheel of a motor vehicle that has a round pressed disc in place of spokes
- 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.
- dischuffed — (New Zealand, British, informal) Very displeased or unsatisfied.
- discophile — a person who studies and collects phonograph records, especially those of a rare or specialized nature.
- 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.
- disfashion — (obsolete, transitive) To disfigure.