10-letter words containing a, s, o, u
- guardhouse — a building used for housing military personnel on guard duty.
- guardrooms — Plural form of guardroom.
- gynandrous — having stamens and pistils united in a column, as in orchids.
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- hadrosaurs — Plural form of hadrosaur.
- halogenous — (chemistry)describes a compound containing a halogen as part of the molecule.
- harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniums — Plural form of harmonium.
- hash house — an inexpensive restaurant, diner, or the like, that serves a limited number of short-order dishes: We stopped for lunch at a roadside hash house.
- hash-house — an inexpensive restaurant, diner, or the like, that serves a limited number of short-order dishes: We stopped for lunch at a roadside hash house.
- haustorium — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- head louse — See under louse (def 1).
- heliopause — the boundary of the heliosphere.
- hellacious — remarkable; astonishing: They're raising a hellacious amount of money in taxes.
- herbaceous — of, relating to, or characteristic of an herb; herblike.
- hereabouts — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- hexagynous — (of a plant) having six pistils
- hexamerous — consisting of or divided into six parts.
- hexandrous — (of a plant) having six stamen
- hexapodous — (zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- holocausts — Plural form of holocaust.
- hologamous — of or relating to an organism having reproductive cells similar in size and structure to the somatic cells.
- homogamous — Botany. having flowers or florets that do not differ sexually (opposed to heterogamous). having the stamens and pistils maturing simultaneously (opposed to dichogamous).
- homoiousia — The doctrine of the homoiousians.
- homoousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence or substance of the Father and the Son is the same (opposed to Heteroousian).
- homosexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- horselaugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- housatonic — a river flowing S from NW Massachusetts through SW Connecticut to Long Island Sound near Stratford, Connecticut. 148 miles (240 km) long.
- house call — a professional visit, as by a doctor or sales representative, to the home of a patient or customer.
- house flag — a flag flown by a merchant ship, bearing the emblem of its owners or operators.
- house mark — a trademark that appears on and identifies all of a company's products.
- house sale — the sale of a house
- house seat — one of a number of seats in a theater that the management reserves for special guests, friends of the producer or cast, etc.
- houseboats — Plural form of houseboat.
- housebreak — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housecarls — Plural form of housecarl.
- houseclean — to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
- housecoats — Plural form of housecoat.
- housemaids — Plural form of housemaid.
- housemaker — Homemaker.
- housemates — Plural form of housemate.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- housewares — (North America) Domestic utensils, especially for the kitchen.
- houstonian — a native or resident of Houston, Texas.
- houstonias — Plural form of houstonia.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- 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