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14-letter words containing h

  • disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • disestablished — Simple past tense and past participle of disestablish.
  • disestablishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disestablish.
  • disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
  • disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
  • disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
  • disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
  • disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
  • dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
  • displenishment — the act of displenishing
  • distinguishing — distinctive; characteristic, as a definitive feature of an individual or group: Intricate rhyming is a distinguishing feature of her poetry.
  • distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
  • dithionic acid — a strong, unstable acid, H 2 S 2 O 6 , known only in solution and in the form of its salts.
  • divine healing — healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
  • do one's thing — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
  • do the honours — If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public event, they act as host or perform some official function.
  • do the needful — to perform a necessary task
  • dolichocephaly — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
  • door-key child — latchkey child.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
  • dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
  • down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
  • down the hatch — drinks toast
  • down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
  • draconic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).
  • drag-parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
  • dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
  • drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
  • drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
  • draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • dread to think — If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
  • dream merchant — a person, as a moviemaker or advertiser, who panders to or seeks to develop the public's craving for luxury, romance, or escapism.
  • driving school — vehicle operation lessons
  • drophead coupé — two-door car with a folding roof and sloping back
  • drummond light — calcium light.
  • dry white wine — Dry white wine is white wine that does not have a sweet taste.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
  • dulce de leche — milk-based caramel sauce or candy
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • dust and ashes — something that is very disappointing
  • dutch colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
  • dutch cupboard — a buffet with open upper shelves.
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