10-letter words containing h, e, d, r, o
- pyrethroid — any of several synthetic compounds that are similar to but more persistent than natural pyrethrins.
- radiophare — a radiotelegraphic station used by vessels to determine their positions; radio beacon.
- radiophone — a radiotelephone.
- red kowhai — parrot's-bill.
- reproached — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- rhabdomere — one of the many parts that makes up a rhabdom
- rhapsodize — to talk with extravagant enthusiasm.
- rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
- rhodophane — the red colour found in the inner cones of the retina in animals
- rhomboides — a rhomboid
- rhotacized — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- ricocheted — the motion of an object or a projectile in rebounding or deflecting one or more times from the surface over which it is passing or against which it hits a glancing blow.
- roadheader — a piece of tunnelling equipment with a conveyor and a cutter
- rose aphid — a dark green aphid, Macrosiphum rosae, that feeds on roses and related plants.
- roughrider — a person who breaks horses to the saddle.
- roundheels — a prostitute.
- roundhouse — a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
- rush order — an order for goods required urgently
- rutherford — Daniel, 1749–1819, Scottish physician and chemist: discoverer of nitrogen.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- scrollhead — billethead.
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- send forth — to be a source of; cause to appear; give out or forth; produce, emit, utter, etc.
- shore bird — a bird that frequents seashores, estuaries, etc., as the snipe, sandpiper, plover, and turnstone; a limicoline bird.
- short code — (language) (SHORTCODE) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics problems, designed by John Mauchly in 1949 to execute on Eckert and Mauchly's BINAC and later on UNIVAC I and II. Short Code was possibly the first attempt at a high level language.
- short head — a distance shorter than the length of a horse's head
- shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
- showerhead — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
- shrovetide — the three days before Ash Wednesday, once a time of confession and absolution.
- side horse — pommel horse.
- sisterhood — the state of being a sister.
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- stadholder — the chief magistrate of the former republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
- tetrachord — a diatonic series of four tones, the first and last separated by a perfect fourth.
- the boards — the acting profession; the stage
- the dragon — the constellation Draco
- theodore i — died a.d. 649, pope 642–649.
- thornhedge — any hedge containing trees, bushes or shrubs that bear thorns
- threadworm — any of various nematode worms, especially a pinworm.
- three-door — a car with three doors: one to the driver's seat, one to the passenger's seat, and one to the boot or trunk; hatchback
- three-fold — a unit of stage scenery consisting of three flats hinged together.
- thrombosed — affected with a thrombus or blood clot
- thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
- thunderous — producing thunder or a loud noise like thunder: thunderous applause.
- toolholder — a device for holding a tool or tools.
- tow-haired — having blond and sometimes tousled hair
- trade show — show (def 22).
- tripehound — an objectionable person
- two-hander — a play for two actors
- typeholder — a small device for holding a few lines of type, used in stamping titles on book covers, or the like.