10-letter words containing h, a, n, d
- cynghanedd — a complex system of rhyme and alliteration used in Welsh verse
- dachshunds — Plural form of dachshund.
- dance hall — Dance halls were large rooms or buildings where people used to pay to go and dance, usually in the evening.
- dandyishly — in the manner of a dandy
- danish oil — a furniture oil, based on synthetic resins, that gives a soft luster.
- date-night — an evening social date on which a married or long-term couple go out together: I enjoy a once-a-week date night with my husband.
- dauphiness — dauphine.
- dauphinois — (of potatoes or other vegetables) sliced and cooked in milk, typically with a topping of cheese.
- dawn horse — eohippus.
- deaconhood — the position of a deacon
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- dehumanise — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- dehumanize — If you say that something dehumanizes people, you mean it takes away from them good human qualities such as kindness, generosity, and independence.
- den father — (in the Boy Scouts) a man who serves as an adult leader or supervisor of a cub scout den.
- detachment — Detachment is the feeling that you have of not being personally involved in something or of having no emotional interest in it.
- diachronic — of, relating to, or studying the development of a phenomenon through time; historical
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- didelphian — of or relating to an animal in the Didelphia subclass of mammals
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- diphenamid — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 16 H 17 ON, used to control weed growth on lawns and various croplands.
- 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.
- disgarnish — to remove garnish or furnishings from
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.
- dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disinthral — (transitive) To set free from thraldom or oppression.
- dithionate — a salt of dithionic acid.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- dobzhansky — Theodosius (Grigorievich) [gri-gawr-ee-uh-vich,, -gohr-] /grɪˈgɔr i ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈgoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1900–75, U.S. geneticist, born in Russia.
- door chain — a short chain with a removable slide fitting that can be attached between the inside of a door and the doorjamb to prevent the door from being opened more than a few inches without the chain being removed.
- doorhandle — A door handle.
- downwashes — Plural form of downwash.
- drag chain — one of a number of chains attached to a hull about to be launched in restricted waters in order to slow its motion by dragging along the bottom.
- dragonfish — any marine fish of the family Bathydraconidae, of Antarctic seas, having an elongated body and flattened head and being biochemically adapted to extremely low temperatures.
- dragonhead — any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
- draughting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- dude ranch — a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.
- duennaship — The role or status of duenna.