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10-letter words containing d, h, a, l

  • grandchild — a child of one's son or daughter.
  • guildhalls — Plural form of guildhall.
  • haidar ali — 1722–82, Islamic prince and military leader of India: ruler of Mysore 1759–82.
  • hair slide — a hinged clip with a tortoiseshell, bone, or similar back, used to fasten the hair
  • halberdier — a soldier, guard, or attendant armed with a halberd.
  • half board — demi-pension (def 1).
  • half-arsed — incompetent; inept; badly organized
  • half-assed — insufficient or haphazard; not fully planned or developed.
  • half-baked — insufficiently cooked.
  • half-blind — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
  • half-blood — the relation between persons having only one common parent.
  • half-board — demi-pension (def 1).
  • half-bound — bound in half binding.
  • half-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to the offspring of parents of different racial origin, especially the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European descent.
  • half-dazed — partly dazed or confused
  • half-dozen — one half of a dozen; six.
  • half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
  • half-hardy — having moderate resistance to cold temperatures.
  • half-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
  • half-pound — a unit of weight equal to 8 ounces avoirdupois (0.227 kilogram) or 6 ounces troy or apothecaries' weight (0.187 kilogram).
  • half-round — semicircular in cross section, as a molding or piece of type.
  • halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
  • halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
  • hallandale — a city in SE Florida.
  • hallmarked — Simple past tense and past participle of hallmark.
  • hand drill — a portable drill designed for two-handed operation.
  • hand glass — a small mirror with a handle.
  • hand level — a leveling instrument held in the hand and used for approximate work at short distances.
  • hand towel — small towel for drying the hands
  • handballer — A handball player.
  • handclasps — Plural form of handclasp.
  • handlanger — an unskilled assistant to a tradesman
  • handleable — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
  • handlebars — Usually, handlebars. the curved steering bar of a bicycle, motorcycle, etc., placed in front of the rider and gripped by the hands. handlebar moustache.
  • handleless — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
  • handloomed — handwoven.
  • handscroll — A traditional Asian scroll that unfolds horizontally so that the reader can view one section at a time while holding it in the hands.
  • handseling — Present participle of handsel.
  • handselled — Simple past tense and past participle of handsel.
  • handsomely — in a handsome manner; pleasingly; successfully.
  • harald iii — surname Hardraade. 1015–66, king of Norway (1047–66); invaded England (1066) and died at the battle of Stamford Bridge
  • harassedly — in a harassed manner
  • hard labor — compulsory labor imposed upon criminals in addition to imprisonment, generally not exceeding ordinary labor in severity or amount.
  • hard light — directed light, especially light whose beams are relatively parallel, producing distinct shadows and a harsher modeling effect on the subject.
  • 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.
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