10-letter words containing h, o, s, t, l, e
- homostyled — (of a plant) having styles of the same form or length in all flowers.
- horsecloth — a cloth used to cover a horse, or as part of its trappings.
- horsetails — Plural form of horsetail.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- 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.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- hostellers — Plural form of hosteller.
- hostelling — Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
- hostelries — Plural form of hostelry.
- hosts file — (networking) A text file on a networked computer used to associate host names with IP addresses. A hosts file contains lines consisting of whitespace-separated fields giving an IP address followed by list of host names or aliases associated with that address. The name resolution library software can use this file to look up the IP address for a host name. The hosts file is "/etc/hosts" on Unix and "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" or "lmhosts" on Microsoft Windows, In most cases, hosts files have now been almost entirely replaced by DNS, in which distributed servers provide the same information. A hosts file can still be used to override DNS for testing purposes or other special situations.
- hotel ship — a ship which is moored and used as a hotel
- houselight — One of the lights in an auditorium.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- huddleston — (Ernest Urban) Trevor, 1913–1998, English Anglican archbishop and antiapartheid activist in Africa.
- hydrolytes — a substance subjected to hydrolysis.
- hylotheism — any philosophical doctrine identifying a god or gods with matter.
- hylotheist — an adherent of hylotheism
- isoplethic — Relating to isopleths.
- isothermal — occurring at constant temperature.
- late hours — rising and going to bed later than is usual
- lectorship — a lecturer in a college or university.
- lich stone — a large stone on which to rest a coffin momentarily at the entrance to a cemetery.
- lighthouse — a tower or other structure displaying or flashing a very bright light for the guidance of ships in avoiding dangerous areas, in following certain routes, etc.
- loathesome — Misspelling of loathsome.
- lose heart — to become despondent or disillusioned (over something)
- lose touch — not keep in contact
- mesolithic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a transitional period of the Stone Age intermediate between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic periods, characterized by adaptation to a hunting, collecting, and fishing economy based on the use of forest, lakeside, and seashore environments; Epipaleolithic.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.
- molestache — (slang, rare) A type of mustache supposedly associated with child molesters.
- motherless — a female parent.
- neckcloths — Plural form of neckcloth.
- nonhostile — Not hostile; free of hostility.
- on the sly — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
- orchestral — of, relating to, or resembling an orchestra.
- orthoclase — a common white or pink mineral of the feldspar group, KAlSi 3 O 8 , having two good cleavages at right angles, and found in silica-rich igneous rocks: used in the manufacture of porcelain.
- orthostyle — (of columns) erected in a straight row.
- out-hustle — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
- phenoplast — phenolic resin.
- photocells — a solid-state device that converts light into electrical energy by producing a voltage, as in a photovoltaic cell, or uses light to regulate the flow of current, as in a photoconductive cell: used in automatic control systems for doors, lighting, etc.
- photolyses — the chemical decomposition of materials under the influence of light.
- pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- plate shop — a shop for cold-forming metal plates.
- polishment — the state of being polished or the action of polishing
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polytheism — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- polytheist — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- psilophyte — any plant that is adapted to grow well in the dry savannah
- rifle shot — sound of shotgun fire
- salt horse — salted beef; salt junk.