10-letter words containing a, h, o, l, i
- heroically — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- hidalgoish — resembling a hidalgo
- hidalgoism — the position or practice of a hidalgo
- hierolatry — worship or veneration of saints or sacred things.
- hispaniola — an island in the West Indies, comprising the republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 29,843 sq. mi. (77,293 sq. km).
- histoblast — a cell or group of cells capable of forming tissue.
- historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- holidaying — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- holocarpic — (of a fungus) having the entire thallus converted into fruiting bodies.
- holy grail — grail (def 1).
- homaloidal — (of a space or surface, etc) flat, in the form of a plane
- homophilia — (dated) homosexuality.
- homosocial — Pertaining to homosociality, to social interaction with the same sex.
- homotaxial — a similarity of arrangement, as of geologic strata or fossil assemblages that have the same relative position but are not necessarily contemporaneous.
- honorarily — given for honor only, without the usual requirements, duties, privileges, emoluments, etc.: The university presented the new governor with an honorary degree.
- horizontal — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
- horrifical — Of or pertaining to horror.
- horsetails — Plural form of horsetail.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- humiliator — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- humoralism — a theory of the composition and workings of the human body, based on the idea that it was filled with four basic substances, or humours, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.
- humoralist — a person who believes in humoralism
- hyaluronic — Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives.
- hylozoical — characterized by the theory that all matter possesses life or that life is an essential property of matter
- hypohalite — (chemistry) any salt of a hypohalous acid, having a general formula M(OX)n.
- hypolimnia — Plural form of hypolimnion.
- hypolydian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the diatonic scale from D to D
- hypoplasia — Pathology. abnormal deficiency of cells or structural elements.
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- ichthammol — a viscous, reddish-brown to brownish-black substance, obtained by the destructive distillation of bituminous shales, used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic, analgesic, and local stimulant in skin disorders.
- inchoately — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- inhalation — an act or instance of inhaling.
- inhalators — Plural form of inhalator.
- island-hop — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isochronal — equal or uniform in time.
- isohalines — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- isothermal — occurring at constant temperature.
- italophile — a person who admires Italian customs, traditions, etc.
- katholikos — catholicos.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- l'hospital — Guillaume François Antoine de [gee-yohm frahn-swa ahn-twan duh] /giˈyoʊm frɑ̃ˈswa ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1661–1704, French mathematician.
- laccoliths — Plural form of laccolith.
- lalochezia — (rare) The use of vulgar or foul language to relieve stress or pain.
- lanthanoid — (inorganic chemistry) lanthanide.