10-letter words containing d, h, o
- hendecagon — a polygon having 11 angles and 11 sides.
- henry ford — Elizabeth Bloomer ("Betty") 1918–2011, U.S. First Lady 1974–77 (wife of Gerald R. Ford).
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- heptapodic — having seven metrical feet
- herdswoman — The female equivalent of a herdsman.
- herdswomen — Plural form of herdswoman.
- heroicized — heroize.
- heterodont — (of most mammals) having teeth of different types
- 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.
- hexachords — Plural form of hexachord.
- hexahedron — a solid figure having six faces, as a cube.
- hexandrous — (of a plant) having six stamen
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- hexapodous — (zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
- hiccoughed — Simple past tense and past participle of hiccough.
- hidalgoish — resembling a hidalgo
- hidalgoism — the position or practice of a hidalgo
- hiddenmost — most hidden or concealed
- hidey hole — a nook or cranny used as a hiding place.
- hidey-hole — a nook or cranny used as a hiding place.
- high board — a diving board three meters above the water.
- high-toned — having high principles; dignified.
- highbrowed — (of a person) highbrow; intellectual and cultured.
- hillingdon — a borough of Greater London, England.
- hindermost — Hindmost.
- hippodrome — an arena or structure for equestrian and other spectacles.
- hipsterdom — The state of being a hipster.
- hirudinoid — of, relating to, or resembling a leech.
- hirudinous — leech-like
- hodgepodge — a heterogeneous mixture; jumble.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- hog badger — a SE Asian badger, Arctonyx collaris, with a piglike mobile snout
- hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.
- 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 court — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- hold forth — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- hold hands — clasp each another's hand
- hold on to — grasp, clutch
- hold still — If you hold still, you do not move.
- hold tight — grasp firmly
- 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.
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- hole model — (electronics) A model of semiconductor behaviour in which donors contribute a positive charge equal in magnitude to the charge of an electron, and acceptors contribute space for such a charge within the crystal lattice. The hole model was proposed well before electrons were discovered and described. Much of electronics, especially at the engineering level, continues to consider current as flowing from positive to negative.
- 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.
- hollywired — Siliwood
- holodiscus — a genus of flowering deciduous shrubs of the family Rosaceae
- holohedral — (of a crystal) having all the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
- holohedron — a holohedral form or crystal
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.