10-letter words containing h, i, e, d
- paedophile — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- pedophilia — sexual desire in an adult for a child.
- pedophilic — pedophile.
- pemphigoid — any of several diseases, often fatal, characterized by blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- petri dish — a shallow, circular, glass or plastic dish with a loose-fitting cover over the top and sides, used for culturing bacteria and other microorganisms.
- phagedenic — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phd thesis — a research thesis written and submitted by a student wishing to be awarded a PhD
- photodiode — a photosensitive semiconductor diode.
- pig-headed — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
- pixie hood — a hood that comes to a point
- polyhedric — resembling a polyhedron
- preholiday — relating to the period before a holiday
- prehominid — any of the extinct humanlike primates classified in the former family Prehominidae.
- preshipped — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- priesthood — the condition or office of a priest.
- princehood — the office or rank of a prince
- prohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- prophesied — to foretell or predict.
- push aside — shove to one side
- push media — (messaging) A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
- 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.
- readership — the people who read or are thought to read a particular book, newspaper, magazine, etc.: The periodical has a dwindling readership.
- red kowhai — parrot's-bill.
- red sindhi — one of an Indian breed of red Brahman dairy cattle, extensively used in crossbreeding with stocks less adapted to subtropical conditions.
- red-haired — having hair that is reddish in colour
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- redruthite — an important dark-grey or black copper ore mineral which is a sulphide
- redshifted — (of radiation) having undergone a redshift.
- rehandling — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- rh disease — erythroblastosis (def 2).
- rhapsodize — to talk with extravagant enthusiasm.
- rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
- rhomboides — a rhomboid
- rhotacized — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- rich media — any internet content that interacts with the user, for example by expanding or streaming video content when the user's mouse hovers over it
- 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.
- ride-share — of or relating to the sharing of rides or transportation, especially among commuters: The agency was set up to devise a ridesharing program.
- river head — the source of a river
- rose aphid — a dark green aphid, Macrosiphum rosae, that feeds on roses and related plants.
- roughrider — a person who breaks horses to the saddle.
- rudderfish — any of various fishes having the habit of following behind ships, as a pilot fish.
- saccharide — an organic compound containing a sugar or sugars.
- sandwiched — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
- scheduling — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- schooltide — schooldays
- sea dahlia — a garden plant, Coreopsis maritima, of the southwestern coast of North America, having long-stalked, solitary, yellow flower heads nearly 3 inches (7.6 cm) wide.
- shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.