10-letter words containing d, s, u
- hexapodous — (zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
- hindu kush — a mountain range in S Asia, mostly in NE Afghanistan, extending W from the Himalayas. Highest peak, Tirich Mir, 25,230 feet (7690 meters).
- hindustani — a standard language and lingua franca of northern India based on a dialect of Western Hindi spoken around Delhi. Abbreviation: Hind. Compare Hindi (def 2), Urdu.
- hirudinous — leech-like
- holodiscus — a genus of flowering deciduous shrubs of the family Rosaceae
- home study — instruction in a subject given by mail and addressed to a student's home.
- hoodlumish — like a hoodlum
- hoodlumism — Behavior characteristic of a hoodlum.
- horrendous — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- house dick — house detective.
- housebound — restricted to the house, as by bad weather or illness.
- housedress — a relatively simple and inexpensive dress suitable for housework.
- households — Plural form of household.
- housemaids — Plural form of housemaid.
- houseproud — Alternative form of house-proud.
- huckstered — Simple past tense and past participle of huckster.
- huddleston — (Ernest Urban) Trevor, 1913–1998, English Anglican archbishop and antiapartheid activist in Africa.
- 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).
- humberside — a county in NE England. 1356 sq. mi. (3525 sq. km).
- humdingers — Plural form of humdinger.
- humidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humidify.
- humidistat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- humidities — Plural form of humidity.
- hundredths — Plural form of hundredth.
- husbandage — the fees and commissions of a ship's manager.
- husbanding — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- husbandman — a farmer.
- husbandmen — Plural form of husbandman.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- ideologues — Plural form of ideologue.
- idolatrous — worshiping idols.
- iguanodons — Plural form of iguanodon.
- ill-suited — not suitable; inappropriate.
- illusioned — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
- immeasured — immeasurable
- impaludism — a diseased state affecting the inhabitants of marshy areas
- impostumed — having an abscess
- in custody — Someone who is in custody or has been taken into custody has been arrested and is being kept in prison until they can be tried in a court.
- in disgust — as a result of disgust
- in dispute — doubted, controversial
- indecorous — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- indentures — Plural form of indenture.
- indextrous — not possessing dexterity
- indigenous — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- indisputed — Alternative form of undisputed.
- inducteous — Rendered electropolar by induction, or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies.
- inductions — Plural form of induction.
- industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- industries — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.