10-letter words containing e, c, l, o
- goalkicker — a person who makes a goal kick
- goalscorer — (football) A person who scores a goal, or scores goals.
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- greencloth — the green covering of a billiard or gaming table
- gridlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of gridlock.
- guilloches — Plural form of guilloche.
- gynecology — the branch of medical science that deals with the health maintenance and diseases of women, especially of the reproductive organs. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
- haemocoels — Plural form of haemocoel.
- haemolytic — of or relating to the disintegration of red blood cells
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- haloclines — Plural form of halocline.
- hammerlock — a hold in which one arm of an opponent is twisted and forced upward behind his back.
- headcollar — A bitless headpiece for leading or tying up a horse.
- hectokilo- — one hundred thousand; the factor 105
- hectoliter — a unit of capacity equal to 100 liters, equivalent to 2.8378 U.S. bushels, or 26.418 U.S. gallons. Abbreviation: hl.
- hectolitre — a unit of capacity equal to 100 liters, equivalent to 2.8378 U.S. bushels, or 26.418 U.S. gallons. Abbreviation: hl.
- helicoidal — coiled or curving like a spiral.
- helicopter — any of a class of heavier-than-air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine.
- helioscope — a telescope for viewing the sun, adapted to protect the eye of the viewer from the sun's glare.
- hellacious — remarkable; astonishing: They're raising a hellacious amount of money in taxes.
- hematocele — hemorrhage into a cavity, as the cavity surrounding the testis.
- hemophilic — characteristic of or affected by hemophilia.
- heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
- heroically — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- holosteric — (of an instrument or device) wholly constructed of solids, without any liquids
- holy place — somewhere sacred
- homeschool — to teach (one's children) at home instead of sending them to school.
- homiletics — the art of preaching; the branch of practical theology that treats of homilies or sermons.
- homocercal — having an equally divided tail, characteristic of adult modern bony fishes.
- homoleptic — (chemistry) Describing an organometallic compound having a single type of ligand.
- hop clover — a trefoil, Trifolium campestre, having withered, yellow flowers that resemble the strobiles of a hop.
- horse clam — gaper.
- horsecloth — a cloth used to cover a horse, or as part of its trappings.
- horseleech — a large leech, as Haemopis marmoratis, that infests the mouth and nasal passages of horses.
- hotel rack — rack6 (def 2).
- house call — a professional visit, as by a doctor or sales representative, to the home of a patient or customer.
- housecarls — Plural form of housecarl.
- houseclean — to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
- hucklebone — hipbone.
- hydroceles — Plural form of hydrocele.
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- iconophile — a connoisseur of icons or images.
- idiolectal — Of or relating to an idiolect.
- idiolectic — Pertaining to an idiolect.
- ileocaecal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the connection between the final segment of the small intestine (ileum) and large intestine (colon).
- inceptisol — a soil so young that horizons have just begun to form: especially prevalent in tundra areas.