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

  • doughbelly — stoneroller (def 1).
  • downhiller — a skier who competes in downhill races, especially in the downhill.
  • downlights — Plural form of downlight.
  • drop cloth — a sheet of cloth, paper, plastic, or the like laid over furniture and floors for protection while a room is being painted or laid over shrubbery while the exterior of a house is being painted.
  • dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
  • drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
  • dual-homed — (networking)   A kind of connection to a FDDI network where a host is simultaneously connected to two separate devices in the same FDDI ring. One of the connections becomes active while the other one is automatically blocked. If the first connection fails, the backup link takes over with no perceptible delay. A dual-homed device can tolerate a fault in one of its "homes" whereas a dual-attached device can tolerate a fault in one of the rings.
  • dutch doll — a jointed wooden doll
  • dutch gold — an alloy of copper and zinc in the form of thin sheets, used as an imitation of gold leaf.
  • dyothelete — a person who subscribes to the teaching that Christ had both a human and a divine will
  • edaphology — The ecological relationship of soil with plants, and land cultivation practices.
  • endolithic — Within rock.
  • endorhizal — (of an embryo) having the radical covered by the cotyledon
  • endothelia — Plural form of endothelium.
  • enthraldom — the condition of being enthralled
  • ethanediol — (organic compound) ethylene glycol.
  • falsehoods — Plural form of falsehood.
  • fingerhold — something onto which the fingers can hold
  • flashboard — a board, or one of a series of boards, as on a milldam, used to increase the depth of the impounded water.
  • flashflood — Alternative spelling of flash flood.
  • floodlight — an artificial light so directed or diffused as to give a comparatively uniform illumination over a rather large given area.
  • flourished — to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished.
  • flowerhead — (botany) A short, compact cluster of flowers, such as those found in the composites.
  • fluohydric — (chemistry) hydrofluoric.
  • flushboard — Alternative form of flashboard.
  • fly orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys insectifera, whose flowers resemble and attract certain wasps: found in wood margins and scrub on lime-rich soils
  • foodaholic — a person having an excessive, often uncontrollable craving for food.
  • foodophile — (informal) A food lover.
  • freeholder — the owner of a freehold.
  • fundholder — (British) a general practitioner who manages his own budget, purchasing healthcare from one or more hospital trusts.
  • furloughed — Simple past tense and past participle of furlough.
  • gas holder — A gas holder is a large, low-pressure container for gas.
  • gasholders — Plural form of gasholder.
  • gentlehood — a position attached to gentle birth
  • glochidium — glochid.
  • goldfishes — Plural form of goldfish.
  • goldsmiths — Plural form of goldsmith.
  • goldthread — a white-flowered plant, Coptis trifolia, of the buttercup family, having a slender, yellow root that is sometimes used as a tonic.
  • goodlihead — goodness; good appearance
  • half board — demi-pension (def 1).
  • half-blood — the relation between persons having only one common parent.
  • half-board — demi-pension (def 1).
  • half-bound — bound in half binding.
  • half-dozen — one half of a dozen; six.
  • 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.
  • hand towel — small towel for drying the hands
  • 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.
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