10-letter words containing l, e, d, o
- grimlooked — having a grim appearance
- groundedly — in a grounded manner, or with good justification or reason
- groundless — without rational basis: groundless fears.
- groundsels — Plural form of groundsel.
- guadeloupe — two islands (Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre) separated by a narrow channel in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies: together with five dependencies they form an overseas department of France. 687 sq. mi. (1179 sq. km). Capital: Basse-Terre.
- gwendoline — a feminine name: dim. Gwen; var. Gwendolyn
- half-dozen — one half of a dozen; six.
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- hand towel — small towel for drying the hands
- handloomed — handwoven.
- handsomely — in a handsome manner; pleasingly; successfully.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- head louse — See under louse (def 1).
- headcollar — A bitless headpiece for leading or tying up a horse.
- healthfood — Alternative spelling of health food.
- hebdomadal — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- helicoidal — coiled or curving like a spiral.
- heligoland — Helgoland.
- hellhounds — Plural form of hellhound.
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- hidey hole — a nook or cranny used as a hiding place.
- hidey-hole — a nook or cranny used as a hiding place.
- hol hamoed — the period between the first and last two days of Passover or Sukkoth, consisting of four days during Passover and five days during Sukkoth and having less than full festival status.
- 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.
- hole model — (electronics) A model of semiconductor behaviour in which donors contribute a positive charge equal in magnitude to the charge of an electron, and acceptors contribute space for such a charge within the crystal lattice. The hole model was proposed well before electrons were discovered and described. Much of electronics, especially at the engineering level, continues to consider current as flowing from positive to negative.
- hollywired — Siliwood
- holohedral — (of a crystal) having all the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
- holohedron — a holohedral form or crystal
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- holystoned — Simple past tense and past participle of holystone.
- home field — A sports team's home field is their own playing field, as opposed to that of other teams.
- homostyled — (of a plant) having styles of the same form or length in all flowers.
- hornblende — a dark-green to black mineral of the amphibole group, calcium magnesium iron and hydroxyl aluminosilicate.
- horned owl — any large owl of the genus Bubo, having prominent ear tufts: family Strigidae
- hotblooded — Spirited, rash, reckless.
- hotel-dieu — a hospital.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- households — Plural form of household.
- huddleston — (Ernest Urban) Trevor, 1913–1998, English Anglican archbishop and antiapartheid activist in Africa.
- humouredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) In the manner of a specified kind of humour. See good-humouredly, bad-humouredly, ill-humouredly.
- hydroceles — Plural form of hydrocele.
- hydrolases — Plural form of hydrolase.
- hydrolized — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrolize.
- hydrolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrolyse.
- hydrolyses — chemical decomposition in which a compound is split into other compounds by reacting with water.
- hydrolytes — a substance subjected to hydrolysis.
- hydrolyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrolyze.
- hydrolyzes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrolyze.
- hydrophile — (chemistry) Any hydrophilic substance.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.