10-letter words containing h, i, d, a, l
- highlander — a Gael inhabiting the Highlands of Scotland.
- hightailed — Simple past tense and past participle of hightail.
- hildebrand — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- hildegarde — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”.
- hinderland — a type of linen cloth from Europe
- hinderlans — the buttocks
- hinterland — Often, hinterlands. the remote or less developed parts of a country; back country: The hinterlands are usually much more picturesque than the urban areas.
- holidaying — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- homaloidal — (of a space or surface, etc) flat, in the form of a plane
- humiliated — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- hyalinised — to become hyaline.
- hyalinized — to become hyaline.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydrically — in a hydric manner; in a manner using water or moisture
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hypolydian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the diatonic scale from D to D
- inthralled — to captivate or charm: a performer whose grace, skill, and virtuosity enthrall her audiences.
- island-hop — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- khalkidíki — Chalcidice
- lah-di-dah — affected; pretentious; foppish: a la-di-da manner.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- lanthanide — any element of the lanthanide series.
- lanthanoid — (inorganic chemistry) lanthanide.
- last-ditch — done finally in desperation to avoid defeat, failure, disaster, etc.: a last-ditch attempt to avert war.
- lauderhill — a city in SE Florida: suburb of Fort Lauderdale.
- lead white — a poisonous pigment used in painting, consisting of white lead and characterized chiefly by a fugitive white color, covering power, and tough, flexible film-forming properties.
- leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- leichhardt — Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈluːtvɪç). 1813–48, Australian explorer, born in Prussia. He disappeared during an attempt to cross Australia from East to West
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- 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
- lizardfish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- loudhailer — (British) A megaphone or bullhorn.
- 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.
- 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).
- midlothian — Formerly Edinburgh. a historic county in SE Scotland.
- mishandled — Simple past tense and past participle of mishandle.
- mishandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishandle.
- nephridial — Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
- oil-harden — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
- old danish — the Danish language as spoken and written from the 9th to the 14th centuries.
- old-siwash — a conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often preceded by old): students from old Siwash.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- 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.