10-letter words containing h, e, g, o, a
- heroic age — one of the five periods in human history, when, according to Hesiod, gods and demigods performed heroic and glorious deeds.
- heterogamy — heterogamous state.
- hexagynous — (of a plant) having six pistils
- hierograms — Plural form of hierogram.
- hierograph — sacred writing or characters
- hog badger — a SE Asian badger, Arctonyx collaris, with a piglike mobile snout
- hog heaven — heaven (def 6).
- hog peanut — a twining plant, Amphicarpaea bracteata, of the legume family, bearing pods that ripen in or on the ground.
- hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.
- home guard — a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.
- home range — the area in which an animal normally lives.
- homemaking — the establishment or management of a home; duties of a homemaker.
- homogenate — a mixture that has been homogenized.
- homologate — to approve; confirm or ratify.
- hop garden — a field of hops
- horselaugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- hour angle — the angle, measured westward through 360°, between the celestial meridian of an observer and the hour circle of a celestial body.
- house flag — a flag flown by a merchant ship, bearing the emblem of its owners or operators.
- hydragogue — causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
- hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
- hygiaphone — a glass screen through which an employee may speak to members of the public, eg at a ticket office
- hypogeusia — a disease characterized by a decreased ability to taste and, sometimes, to smell: associated with a zinc deficiency
- hypozeugma — the use of a succession of subjects with a single predicate.
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- keogh plan — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- lagerphone — (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. (From 1952.).
- largemouth — Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large mouth.
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- loggerhead — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
- logorrhoea — (British spelling) Standard form of logorrhea.
- long beach — a city in SW California, S of Los Angeles: a seaside resort.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- longheaded — Having unusual foresight or sagacity.
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.
- mahoganies — Plural form of mahogany.
- mareograph — marigraph.
- megaphoned — Simple past tense and past participle of megaphone.
- megaphones — Plural form of megaphone.
- megaphonic — Of, or pertaining to, a megaphone.
- methanogen — any of a diverse group of widely distributed archaebacteria that occur in anaerobic environments, as the intestinal tracts of animals, freshwater and marine sediments, and sewage, and are capable of producing methane from a limited number of substrates, including carbon dioxide and hydrogen, acetate, and methylamines: an important source of natural gas.
- microphage — a small phagocytic cell in blood or lymph, especially a polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
- mimeograph — a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
- morgenthau — Henry, 1856–1946, U.S. financier and diplomat, born in Germany.
- necrophage — An organism that eats dead or decaying flesh.
- necrophagy — The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh.
- nephograph — an instrument for photographing clouds
- ochlagogue — (rare) A manipulator of a mob who holds sway by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; an extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogue; one who practises ochlagogy.
- oesophagus — (anatomy) The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.
- ogden nash — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.