10-letter words containing a, l, d, e
- hard lines — bad luck
- hard maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- hard-liner — a person who adheres rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan.
- hard-shell — Also, hard-shelled. having a firm, hard shell, as a crab in its normal state; not having recently molted.
- hardballer — (informal) One who exhibits hardball (tough or ruthless) behaviour.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- hardenable — to make hard or harder: to harden steel.
- hardliners — Plural form of hardliner.
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- hatchelled — Simple past tense and past participle of hatchel.
- hazardless — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- head clerk — a supervisor; manager
- head louse — See under louse (def 1).
- head table — the principal table, as at a banquet or conference, often at the head of a row of tables or raised on a dais, where the presiding officer, chief speaker, guests of honor, etc., are seated.
- headcollar — A bitless headpiece for leading or tying up a horse.
- headlessly — In a headless way.
- headlights — a light or lamp, usually equipped with a reflector, on the front of an automobile, locomotive, etc.
- headliners — Plural form of headliner.
- headlining — a heading in a newspaper for any written material, sometimes for an illustration, to indicate subject matter, set in larger type than that of the copy and containing one or more words and lines and often several banks.
- headstalls — (British) Plural form of headstall.
- healthfood — Alternative spelling of health food.
- heartlands — Plural form of heartland.
- heat devil — a wavering, shimmering disturbance of air above or around a hot surface.
- heathlands — Plural form of heathland.
- heatshield — A system designed to protect what is behind it against heat.
- hebdomadal — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- hedgeapple — Alternate name for the fruit of the osage orange tree, also known as the hedge tree.
- helicoidal — coiled or curving like a spiral.
- heligoland — Helgoland.
- hemihedral — (of a crystal) having only half the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
- henry dale — Sir Henry Hallett [hal-it] /ˈhæl ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1875–1968, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.
- heraclidae — a drama (429? b.c.) by Euripides.
- heraldship — the office or position of a herald
- herbicidal — Of, or relating to herbicides.
- heulandite — a white or transparent, colorless mineral of the zeolite family, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, CaAl 2 Si 7 O 18 ⋅6H 2 O, occurring in basic volcanic rocks in the form of crystals with a pearly luster.
- hexahedral — Having six plane surfaces.
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- highballed — Simple past tense and past participle of highball.
- highlander — a Gael inhabiting the Highlands of Scotland.
- hightailed — Simple past tense and past participle of hightail.
- hildebrand — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- hildegarde — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”.
- hinderland — a type of linen cloth from Europe
- hinderlans — the buttocks
- hinterland — Often, hinterlands. the remote or less developed parts of a country; back country: The hinterlands are usually much more picturesque than the urban areas.
- hol hamoed — the period between the first and last two days of Passover or Sukkoth, consisting of four days during Passover and five days during Sukkoth and having less than full festival status.
- hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- holohedral — (of a crystal) having all the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- humiliated — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.