10-letter words containing h, u, l
- flat thunk — (programming) A software mechanism that allows a Win32 application to load and call a 16-bit DLL, or a 16-bit application to load and call a Win32 DLL. See also generic thunk, universal thunk.
- flaunching — The sloped mortar fillet around the base of a chimney pot, which serves to hold the pot in position and allow rainwater to run off.
- flexihours — hours of work under flexitime
- flophouses — Plural form of flophouse.
- flour moth — larva of butterfly that feeds on grain
- flourished — to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished.
- flourisher — One who flourishes.
- flourishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flourish.
- flue brush — a brush used for cleaning soot from chimneys
- flugelhorn — a brass wind instrument with three valves, usually pitched in B flat and used especially in military bands.
- fluid head — The fluid head is the pressure which is measured by the height to which fluid that is being pumped can be raised by the pressure.
- flunkeyish — resembling a flunkey
- fluohydric — (chemistry) hydrofluoric.
- fluorophor — Alternative form of fluorophore.
- flush girt — a girt running parallel to joists and at the same level.
- flush left — a fresh growth, as of shoots and leaves.
- flushboard — Alternative form of flashboard.
- flutemouth — any of several fish with a tubular snout
- four flush — a useless poker hand, containing four of a suit and one odd card
- four-flush — to bluff.
- four-wheel — having four wheels.
- free lunch — food provided without charge in some bars and saloons to attract customers.
- frightfull — Archaic form of frightful.
- full house — a hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair, as three queens and two tens.
- full rhyme — rhyme in which the stressed vowels and all following consonants and vowels are identical, but the consonants preceding the rhyming vowels are different, as in chain, brain; soul, pole.
- fundholder — (British) a general practitioner who manages his own budget, purchasing healthcare from one or more hospital trusts.
- furloughed — Simple past tense and past participle of furlough.
- galumphing — to move along heavily and clumsily.
- gaultheria — (botany) Any of the genus Gaultheria of evergreen ericaceous shrubs.
- geophilous — Zoology. terrestrial, as certain snails.
- ghastfully — in a ghastful manner
- ghoulishly — In a ghoulish manner.
- gill pouch — branchial pouch.
- glasshouse — a glassworks.
- glochidium — glochid.
- glory bush — a shrub, Tibouchina urvilleana, native to Brazil, having showy purple flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- glucophore — a chemical group responsible for sweetness of taste
- gnaphalium — Any of the genus Gnaphalium of flowering plants, the cudweeds.
- goalmouths — Plural form of goalmouth.
- guildhalls — Plural form of guildhall.
- guilloches — Plural form of guilloche.
- habitually — of the nature of a habit; fixed by or resulting from habit: habitual courtesy.
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- half-bound — bound in half binding.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- half-human — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- half-pound — a unit of weight equal to 8 ounces avoirdupois (0.227 kilogram) or 6 ounces troy or apothecaries' weight (0.187 kilogram).
- half-quire — 12 uniform sheets of paper.
- half-round — semicircular in cross section, as a molding or piece of type.
- half-stuff — (in a manufacturing process) any material half formed, especially partly prepared pulp for making paper.