10-letter words containing l, h, s
- hoodlumism — Behavior characteristic of a hoodlum.
- hopelessly — In a way that shows or causes despair.
- horologist — an expert in horology.
- horse balm — a lemon-scented plant, Collinsonia canadensis, of eastern North America, having small yellow flowers.
- horse clam — gaper.
- horsecloth — a cloth used to cover a horse, or as part of its trappings.
- horseflesh — the flesh of a horse.
- horseflies — Plural form of horsefly.
- horselaugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- horseleech — a large leech, as Haemopis marmoratis, that infests the mouth and nasal passages of horses.
- horsetails — Plural form of horsetail.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitably — 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
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- house call — a professional visit, as by a doctor or sales representative, to the home of a patient or customer.
- house flag — a flag flown by a merchant ship, bearing the emblem of its owners or operators.
- house rule — a rule that is used in a game only in a specific place, as a particular casino, or only among a certain group of players.
- house sale — the sale of a house
- housecarls — Plural form of housecarl.
- houseclean — to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
- houseflies — Plural form of housefly.
- households — Plural form of household.
- houseleeks — Plural form of houseleek.
- houselight — One of the lights in an auditorium.
- houselling — administration of the Eucharist
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- hoverflies — Plural form of hoverfly.
- huddleston — (Ernest Urban) Trevor, 1913–1998, English Anglican archbishop and antiapartheid activist in Africa.
- hula skirt — a skirt made of long stems of grass bound to a waistband, worn typically by a Hawaiian hula dancer.
- hull house — a settlement house in Chicago, Ill., founded in 1889 by Jane Addams.
- humbleness — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- hume's law — the philosophical doctrine that an evaluative statement cannot be derived from purely factual premises, often formulated as: one can't derive an "ought" from an "is"
- humicolous — of or relating to organisms that live in or on soil.
- humiliates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humiliate.
- humilities — the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc.
- humoralism — a theory of the composition and workings of the human body, based on the idea that it was filled with four basic substances, or humours, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.
- humoralist — a person who believes in humoralism
- humorously — characterized by humor; funny; comical: a humorous anecdote.
- humourless — (British spelling, Canadian) alternative spelling of humorless.
- huntsville — a city in N Alabama: rocket and missile center.
- hurtlessly — harmlessly
- hyalinised — to become hyaline.