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10-letter words containing h, o, t, d

  • floodlight — an artificial light so directed or diffused as to give a comparatively uniform illumination over a rather large given area.
  • gaptoothed — having a gap between two teeth, as because of a missing tooth
  • gentlehood — a position attached to gentle birth
  • ghettoised — Simple past tense and past participle of ghettoise.
  • ghettoized — Simple past tense and past participle of ghettoize.
  • ghost word — a word that has come into existence by error rather than by normal linguistic transmission, as through the mistaken reading of a manuscript, a scribal error, or a misprint.
  • ghost-weed — snow-on-the-mountain.
  • godbrother — The son of one's godparent.
  • godfathers — Plural form of godfather.
  • godmothers — Plural form of godmother.
  • goldsmiths — Plural form of goldsmith.
  • goldthread — a white-flowered plant, Coptis trifolia, of the buttercup family, having a slender, yellow root that is sometimes used as a tonic.
  • good faith — accordance with standards of honesty, trust, sincerity, etc. (usually preceded by in): If you act in good faith, he'll have no reason to question your motives.
  • good night — enjoyable evening, night
  • good thing — (convention)   (From the 1930 Sellar and Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Often capitalised; always pronounced as if capitalised. 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: "The Trailblazer's 19.2 Kbaud PEP mode with on-the-fly Lempel-Ziv compression is a Good Thing for sites relaying netnews". 2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later: "Removing the self-modifying code from that shared library would be a Good Thing". 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in "Yacc is a Good Thing", specifically connotes that the thing has drastically reduced a programmer's work load. Opposite: Bad Thing, compare big win.
  • good-night — a farewell or leave-taking: He said his good-nights before leaving the party.
  • goodnights — Plural form of goodnight.
  • graphitoid — resembling graphite
  • haddington — former name of East Lothian.
  • hand it to — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hand towel — small towel for drying the hands
  • handsomest — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
  • handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
  • hard court — a tennis court having a concrete or asphalt surface.
  • haut monde — high society.
  • have to do — You use have to when you are saying that something is necessary or required, or must happen. If you do not have to do something, it is not necessary or required.
  • head count — an inventory of people in a group taken by counting individuals.
  • headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
  • headstones — Plural form of headstone.
  • headstrong — determined to have one's own way; willful; stubborn; obstinate: a headstrong young man.
  • healthfood — Alternative spelling of health food.
  • heathendom — (in historical contexts) an individual of a people that do not acknowledge the God of the Bible; a person who is neither a Jew, Christian, nor Muslim; a pagan.
  • hedonistic — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • hematoidin — ErrorTitleDiv {.
  • heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
  • heptapodic — having seven metrical feet
  • heterodont — (of most mammals) having teeth of different types
  • heterodoxy — heterodox state or quality.
  • heterodyne — noting or pertaining to a method of changing the frequency of an incoming radio signal by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals.
  • hiddenmost — most hidden or concealed
  • high-toned — having high principles; dignified.
  • hindermost — Hindmost.
  • hipsterdom — The state of being a hipster.
  • hofstadterRichard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
  • hold court — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
  • hold forth — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
  • hold on to — grasp, clutch
  • hold still — If you hold still, you do not move.
  • hold tight — grasp firmly
  • hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
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