10-letter words containing h, i, e, r, o, l
- herakleion — a seaport in N Crete.
- heriotable — liable for the payment of a heriot
- hermosillo — a state in NW Mexico. 70,484 sq. mi. (182,555 sq. km). Capital: Hermosillo.
- heroically — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- heronsbill — any of a genus (Erodium) of plants of the geranium family, with fine leaves and yellow, white, or reddish flowers
- herophilus — died ?280 bc, Greek anatomist in Alexandria. He was the first to distinguish sensory from motor nerves
- heterophil — Also, heterophilic. Immunology. (of an antibody) having an affinity for an antigen other than its specific antigen.
- hieroglyph — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- hierolatry — worship or veneration of saints or sacred things.
- hilltopper — the top or summit of a hill.
- hirtellous — minutely hirsute.
- hollywired — Siliwood
- holosteric — (of an instrument or device) wholly constructed of solids, without any liquids
- holstering — Present participle of holster.
- horseflies — Plural form of horsefly.
- horsetails — Plural form of horsetail.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hostelries — Plural form of hostelry.
- hoverflies — Plural form of hoverfly.
- hydrolized — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrolize.
- hydrophile — (chemistry) Any hydrophilic substance.
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hyperploid — having a chromosome number that is greater than but not a multiple of the diploid number.
- isothermal — occurring at constant temperature.
- kenilworth — a town in central Warwickshire, in central England, SE of Birmingham.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- lectorship — a lecturer in a college or university.
- leiotrichy — the condition of having straight hair
- lherzolite — a peridotite consisting mainly of olivine, with orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene
- lienholder — a person who has a lien on particular property.
- limitrophe — (of a country or region) on or near a frontier
- lipochrome — any of the naturally occurring pigments that contain a lipid, as carotene.
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- lithotrite — an instrument for performing lithotrity.
- logorrheic — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- loudhailer — (British) A megaphone or bullhorn.
- morpholine — a colorless, hygroscopic liquid, C 4 H 9 NO, used chiefly as a solvent for dyes, resins, and waxes.
- motherlike — Having the quality or suggestive of a mother; maternal, motherly.
- nalorphine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 1 9 H 2 1 NO 3 , used to nullify respiratory depression due to narcotics and for the diagnosis of addiction to narcotics.
- necrophile — (sexuality) One who is subject to necrophilia.
- necrophily — Necrophilia.
- negrophile — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- neighborly — having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.
- nephrolith — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
- neutrophil — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- northfield — a town in SE Minnesota.
- oil-harden — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.