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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.
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