10-letter words containing h, e, l, i, o
- flourishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flourish.
- foodophile — (informal) A food lover.
- foolishest — Superlative form of foolish.
- geophilous — Zoology. terrestrial, as certain snails.
- ghostliest — Superlative form of ghostly.
- goldfishes — Plural form of goldfish.
- goliathise — to play Goliath, exaggerate extravagantly
- goliathize — to exaggerate extravagantly
- goodlihead — goodness; good appearance
- guilloches — Plural form of guilloche.
- gypsophile — any plant living or thriving in soil containing gypsum.
- haemolysin — Alternative spelling of hemolysin.
- haemolysis — Alternative spelling of hemolysis.
- haemolytic — of or relating to the disintegration of red blood cells
- haemophile — a haemophilic bacterium
- hailstones — Plural form of hailstone.
- halloysite — a refractory clay mineral similar in composition to kaolinite.
- haloclines — Plural form of halocline.
- halophiles — Plural form of halophile.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- hectokilo- — one hundred thousand; the factor 105
- hectoliter — a unit of capacity equal to 100 liters, equivalent to 2.8378 U.S. bushels, or 26.418 U.S. gallons. Abbreviation: hl.
- hectolitre — a unit of capacity equal to 100 liters, equivalent to 2.8378 U.S. bushels, or 26.418 U.S. gallons. Abbreviation: hl.
- hegemonial — hegemonic, controlling, dominant
- hektoliter — a unit of capacity equal to 100 liters, equivalent to 2.8378 U.S. bushels, or 26.418 U.S. gallons. Abbreviation: hl.
- helicoidal — coiled or curving like a spiral.
- helicopter — any of a class of heavier-than-air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine.
- heligoland — Helgoland.
- heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- heliolatry — worship of the sun.
- heliometer — a telescope with a divided, adjustable objective, formerly used to measure small angular distances, as those between celestial bodies.
- heliometry — The measurement of the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc.
- heliopause — the boundary of the heliosphere.
- heliophile — Any organism that is attracted to large amounts of sunlight.
- heliophyte — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
- heliopolis — Biblical name On. an ancient ruined city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta.
- helioscope — a telescope for viewing the sun, adapted to protect the eye of the viewer from the sun's glare.
- heliostats — Plural form of heliostat.
- heliotaxis — movement of an organism toward or away from sunlight.
- heliotrope — any hairy plant belonging to the genus Heliotropium, of the borage family, as H. arborescens, cultivated for its small, fragrant purple flowers.
- heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
- hellacious — remarkable; astonishing: They're raising a hellacious amount of money in taxes.
- helleborin — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 28 H 36 O 6 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a purgative.
- hemiglobin — methemoglobin.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- hemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
- hemolysins — Plural form of hemolysin.
- hemophilia — any of several X-linked genetic disorders, symptomatic chiefly in males, in which excessive bleeding occurs owing to the absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the blood.
- hemophilic — characteristic of or affected by hemophilia.
- hemophilus — a genus of rod-shaped, parasitic, hemophilic bacteria, certain species of which, as H. influenzae or H. suis, are pathogenic for humans and animals.