10-letter words containing d, e, h, y
- dysphemism — the substitution of a harsh, disparaging, or unpleasant expression for a more neutral one.
- edaphology — The ecological relationship of soil with plants, and land cultivation practices.
- endophytes — Plural form of endophyte.
- endophytic — Of or relating to an endophyte.
- endothermy — (biology) A form of thermoregulation in which heat is generated by the organism's metabolism.
- enhydritic — pertaining to enhydrite
- eye shadow — make-up for the eyelids
- fiendishly — In a fiendish manner.
- greyheaded — having grey hair
- greyhounds — Plural form of greyhound.
- handsomely — in a handsome manner; pleasingly; successfully.
- handywomen — Plural form of handywoman.
- harassedly — in a harassed manner
- hard money — (in the US) money given directly to a candidate in an election to assist his or her campaign
- hdr energy — hot dry rock energy; energy extracted from hot rocks below the earth's surface by pumping water around a circuit in the hot region and back to the surface
- head money — a tax of so much per head or person.
- head rhyme — beginning rhyme.
- headlessly — In a headless way.
- heavy-duty — providing an unusual amount of power, durability, etc.: heavy-duty machinery; heavy-duty shoes.
- heedlessly — careless; thoughtless; unmindful: Heedless of the danger, he returned to the burning building to save his dog.
- henry dale — Sir Henry Hallett [hal-it] /ˈhæl ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1875–1968, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.
- henry ford — Elizabeth Bloomer ("Betty") 1918–2011, U.S. First Lady 1974–77 (wife of Gerald R. Ford).
- hereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- heterodoxy — heterodox state or quality.
- heterodyne — noting or pertaining to a method of changing the frequency of an incoming radio signal by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals.
- hexahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) hexahydroxy.
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- hidey hole — a nook or cranny used as a hiding place.
- hidey-hole — a nook or cranny used as a hiding place.
- high-keyed — very nervous or excitable; high-strung.
- hollywired — Siliwood
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- holystoned — Simple past tense and past participle of holystone.
- home study — instruction in a subject given by mail and addressed to a student's home.
- homostyled — (of a plant) having styles of the same form or length in all flowers.
- honeyguide — any of a family (Indicatoridae) of small, heavily built, drab-colored piciform birds of Africa, Asia, and the East Indies: they are said to lead people or animals to bees' nests in order to eat the grubs and wax discarded by the people, etc. when they take the honeycombs
- hoydenhood — the condition of a rude, ill-bred or boisterous and noisy girl or woman, or a tomboy
- humouredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) In the manner of a specified kind of humour. See good-humouredly, bad-humouredly, ill-humouredly.
- hyalinised — to become hyaline.
- hyalinized — to become hyaline.
- hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
- hybridised — Simple past tense and past participle of hybridise.
- hybridized — Simple past tense and past participle of hybridize.
- hybridizer — One who hybridizes.
- hybridizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hybridize.
- hydathodes — Plural form of hydathode.
- hydra code — (humour, programming) Code that cannot be fixed because each time a bug is remove, two new bugs grow in its place. Named after the many-headed Hydra of Greek mythology.
- hydragogue — causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
- hydrangeas — Plural form of hydrangea.
- hydrastine — an alkaloid, C 21 H 21 NO 6 , that is extracted from the roots of goldenseal and forms prismatic crystals: used as an astringent and to inhibit uterine bleeding.