10-letter words containing s, i, t, h
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- cuttlefish — A cuttlefish is a sea animal that has a soft body and a hard shell inside.
- cystoliths — Plural form of cystolith.
- dash light — a light to illuminate a dashboard in a motor vehicle
- death wish — A death wish is a conscious or unconscious desire to die or be killed.
- 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.
- delighters — a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
- depot ship — a ship providing supplies and facilities for other vessels or naval bases
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- diddlyshit — diddly (def 1).
- 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
- 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.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disenthral — disenthrall.
- dish night — (formerly) a night, usually held weekly, when a movie theater distributed a free dish or piece of chinaware to each patron as an inducement to visit the theater.
- dish towel — cloth: for drying dishes
- dishcloths — Plural form of dishcloth.
- dishearted — Simple past tense and past participle of disheart.
- dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disheritor — someone who disinherits
- dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
- dishtowels — Plural form of dishtowel.
- disinherit — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- disinhibit — Make (someone or something) less inhibited.
- disinthral — (transitive) To set free from thraldom or oppression.
- dispatched — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispatches — Plural form of dispatch.
- dissheathe — to bring out of a sheathe; to unsheathe
- distichous — Botany. arranged alternately in two vertical rows on opposite sides of an axis, as leaves.
- distraught — distracted; deeply agitated.
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- ditch-moss — elodea.
- ditheistic — Of or pertaining to ditheism, the belief in two gods.
- ditherings — Plural form of dithering.
- dithionous — as in dithionous acid
- dithyrambs — Plural form of dithyramb.
- docentship — privatdocent.
- doctorfish — a surgeonfish, especially Acanthurus chirurgus, of the West Indies, having a bluish body and black tail.
- doctorship — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- doughtiest — Superlative form of doughty.
- downlights — Plural form of downlight.
- driveshaft — A rotating shaft that transmits torque in an engine.
- duotheists — Plural form of duotheist.
- dust whirl — dust devil.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient