10-letter words containing h, e, a, d, l
- letterhead — a printed heading on stationery, especially one giving the name and address of a business concern, an institution, etc.
- lightfaced — Written, printed or drawn in lightface using a font that has a low ration of ink to white space. The opposite of boldfaced.
- line ahead — a formation adopted by a naval unit for manoeuvring
- livelihead — vigour or liveliness
- loggerhead — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- longheaded — Having unusual foresight or sagacity.
- look ahead — see what is in front
- loose head — the prop on the hooker's left in the front row of a scrum
- loudhailer — (British) A megaphone or bullhorn.
- lunkheaded — Seeming to have a lunk for a head; obtuse.
- lymphedema — the accumulation of lymph in soft tissue with accompanying swelling, often of the extremities: sometimes caused by inflammation, obstruction, or removal of lymph channels.
- lymphodema — (pathology) A condition of fluid retention caused by a compromised lymphatic system.
- manhandled — Simple past tense and past participle of manhandle.
- manhandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manhandle.
- marblehead — a resort in NE Massachusetts: yachting.
- marshalled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- melchiades — Saint, died a.d. 314, pope 310–314.
- methodical — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- methylated — Simple past tense and past participle of methylate.
- methyldopa — a white powder, C 1 0 H 1 3 NO 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- midchannel — (geography) In the middle of a channel.
- middlehand — the player on the dealer's right in a game with three players. Compare endhand, forehand (def 7).
- mishandled — Simple past tense and past participle of mishandle.
- mishandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishandle.
- ml threads — SML/NJ with mutual exclusion primitives similar to those in Modula-2+ and Mesa. Written by Greg Morrisett <[email protected]>. Implementations for Motorola 68020, SPARC and MIPS and VAX- and MIPS-based multiprocessors.
- mothballed — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- motherland — one's native land.
- motherload — A very large amount of something valuable.
- muddlehead — a stupid person; blunderer.
- muleheaded — stubborn; intractable.
- musclehead — a muscular man, esp. one who is involved in bodybuilding, weight lifting, etc.
- nephridial — Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
- noodlehead — a fool or simpleton; dolt; blockhead.
- octahedral — having the form of an octahedron.
- oil-harden — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
- overhandle — to handle, or mention, too much
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- paedophile — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
- panhandler — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
- pebbledash — to cover with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
- pedophilia — sexual desire in an adult for a child.
- petrolhead — a person who is excessively interested in or is devoted to travelling by car
- phenolated — containing phenol; carbolated.
- ploughhead — the draught iron of a plough
- polyhedral — of, relating to, or having the shape of a polyhedron.
- preholiday — relating to the period before a holiday
- rattlehead — a rattlebrain.
- rehandling — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.