10-letter words containing h, e, a, d, l
- chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
- coolheaded — not easily flustered; calm
- daisywheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- dall sheep — a wild sheep (Ovis dalli) with white hair and long spiral horns, living in the mountains of NW North America
- damselfish — any small tropical percoid fish of the family Pomacentridae, having a brightly coloured deep compressed body
- dance hall — Dance halls were large rooms or buildings where people used to pay to go and dance, usually in the evening.
- daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
- dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
- death bell — a bell tolled to announce a death
- death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
- death cell — a prison cell for criminals sentenced to death
- death roll — a list of the people killed in a war or disaster
- death toll — The death toll of an accident, disaster, or war is the number of people who die in it.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- deathplace — the place at which a person dies: Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.
- decathlete — a participant in a decathlon
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- demothball — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- deshabille — the state of being partly or carelessly dressed
- detachable — If a part of an object is detachable, it has been made so that it can be removed from the object.
- detachably — in a detachable fashion
- detachedly — in a detached fashion
- diaphyseal — the shaft of a long bone.
- diarrhoeal — Standard spelling of diarrheal.
- diathermal — of or relating to diathermy
- didelphian — of or relating to an animal in the Didelphia subclass of mammals
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- disenthral — disenthrall.
- dishabille — the state of being dressed in a careless, disheveled, or disorderly style or manner; undress.
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- doorhandle — A door handle.
- dreamwhile — the duration of a dream
- 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.
- dummelhead — a stupid or slow-witted person
- edaphology — The ecological relationship of soil with plants, and land cultivation practices.
- elder hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the nondealer, who has certain advantages in the play
- enchiladas — Plural form of enchilada.
- endorhizal — (of an embryo) having the radical covered by the cotyledon
- endothelia — Plural form of endothelium.
- enthraldom — the condition of being enthralled
- enthralled — Capture the fascinated attention of.
- ethanediol — (organic compound) ethylene glycol.
- falsehoods — Plural form of falsehood.
- fatherland — one's native country.
- fiddlehead — Nautical. a billethead having a form similar to the volute carved at the upper end of a violin.
- field hand — a person who works in the fields of a farm or plantation.
- fishtailed — Simple past tense and past participle of fishtail.
- flowerhead — (botany) A short, compact cluster of flowers, such as those found in the composites.
- fluid head — The fluid head is the pressure which is measured by the height to which fluid that is being pumped can be raised by the pressure.
- gas holder — A gas holder is a large, low-pressure container for gas.