10-letter words containing h, a, u, l, s
- horselaugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- house call — a professional visit, as by a doctor or sales representative, to the home of a patient or customer.
- house flag — a flag flown by a merchant ship, bearing the emblem of its owners or operators.
- house sale — the sale of a house
- housecarls — Plural form of housecarl.
- houseclean — to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- hula skirt — a skirt made of long stems of grass bound to a waistband, worn typically by a Hawaiian hula dancer.
- hume's law — the philosophical doctrine that an evaluative statement cannot be derived from purely factual premises, often formulated as: one can't derive an "ought" from an "is"
- humiliates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humiliate.
- humoralism — a theory of the composition and workings of the human body, based on the idea that it was filled with four basic substances, or humours, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.
- humoralist — a person who believes in humoralism
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- languishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of languish.
- late hours — rising and going to bed later than is usual
- launchings — Plural form of launching.
- lisianthus — Eustoma grandiflorum, now Eustoma exaltatum subsp. russellianum, a flowering plant.
- liu shaoqi — 1898–1973, Chinese Communist leader: head of state 1959–66.
- lubumbashi — a province in the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo: important mining area. 191,878 sq. mi. (496,964 sq. km). Capital: Lubumbashi.
- lughnasadh — an ancient Celtic festival held on Aug 1. It is also celebrated by modern pagans
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- methuselah — a patriarch who lived 969 years. Gen. 5:27.
- multiflash — (of a photographic image) created using several flashes in quick succession in order to depict the successive stages of a movement or action sequence
- multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- musclehead — a muscular man, esp. one who is involved in bodybuilding, weight lifting, etc.
- music hall — an auditorium for concerts and musical entertainments.
- nail brush — small brush for cleaning finger- and toe-nails
- onslaughts — Plural form of onslaught.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
- play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
- polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- prothallus — prothallium.
- punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
- push along — to go away
- push plate — a rectangular protective plate of metal, plastic, ceramic, or other material applied vertically to the lock stile of a door.
- quackishly — In a quackish manner.
- qualmishly — In a qualmish manner.
- salt chuck — the ocean.
- satchelful — the amount a satchel will hold
- scrum half — a player who puts in the ball at scrums and tries to get it away to his three-quarter backs
- sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
- shakuntala — Sakuntala.