| DESPATCHING | • despatching v. Present participle of despatch. • DESPATCH v. to deal with speedily. |
| DISHABITING | • DISHABIT v. (Shakespeare) to drive from a habitation. |
| DISPATCHING | • dispatching n. The sending of somebody or something to a destination for a purpose. • dispatching n. (Informal) burial. • dispatching v. Present participle of dispatch. |
| DRAUGHTSMAN | • draughtsman n. A person skilled at drawing engineering or architectural plans. • draughtsman n. (Obsolete) A book illustrator. • draughtsman n. A piece in the game of draughts (checkers). |
| DRAUGHTSMEN | • draughtsmen n. Plural of draughtsman. • DRAUGHTSMAN n. a person whose profession is to make drawings, plans, or sketches, also DRAFTSMAN. |
| HAMSTRINGED | • hamstringed v. Simple past tense and past participle of hamstring. • HAMSTRING v. to disable by severing the hamstrings. |
| HANDFASTING | • handfasting v. Present participle of handfast. • handfasting n. The ceremony in which people handfast. • HANDFASTING n. a betrothal. |
| HINDCASTING | • hindcasting n. Testing by use of hindcasts. • HINDCAST v. to test a mathematical model by inputting known or closely estimated data for past events to see how well the output matches the known results. |
| KNIGHTHEADS | • knightheads n. Plural of knighthead. • KNIGHTHEAD n. either of a pair of vertical supports for the bowsprit. |
| MASTHEADING | • mastheading v. Present participle of masthead. • MASTHEAD v. to raise to the masthead; to punish by sending to the masthead. |
| NEARSIGHTED | • nearsighted adj. Alternative form of near-sighted. • near-sighted adj. Myopic, suffering from myopia. • near␣sighted adj. Myopic; unable to see distant objects unaided. |
| NIGHTSHADES | • nightshades n. Plural of nightshade. • NIGHTSHADE n. a name given to various plants, esp. of the Solanaceae family and chiefly poisonous or narcotic. |
| NIGHTSTANDS | • nightstands n. Plural of nightstand. • NIGHTSTAND n. a bedside table. |
| STRAPHANGED | • STRAPHANG v. of a passenger in a train or bus, to hold on to a strap for safety. |