10-letter words containing l, u, d, h
- 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.
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- holodiscus — a genus of flowering deciduous shrubs of the family Rosaceae
- hoodlumish — like a hoodlum
- hoodlumism — Behavior characteristic of a hoodlum.
- 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.
- humiliated — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- 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.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydromulch — to spread mulch on (a field, garden, etc.) in a stream of water propelled through a hose.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- keelhauled — Simple past tense and past participle of keelhaul.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- lauderhill — a city in SE Florida: suburb of Fort Lauderdale.
- laugh down — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- launch pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- le duc tho — (Phan Dinh Khai) 1911–90, Vietnamese politician and statesman: declined 1973 Nobel Peace Prize.
- light-duty — made or designed to withstand comparatively moderate loads, use, or stress: light-duty trucks.
- loud mouth — a loudmouthed person.
- loudhailer — (British) A megaphone or bullhorn.
- loudmouths — Plural form of loudmouth.
- lughnasadh — an ancient Celtic festival held on Aug 1. It is also celebrated by modern pagans
- lunkheaded — Seeming to have a lunk for a head; obtuse.
- lyam-hound — a bloodhound.
- lyme-hound — lyam-hound.
- monohulled — (nautical) Having a single hull.
- muddlehead — a stupid person; blunderer.
- muleheaded — stubborn; intractable.
- multi-hued — having the hue or color as specified (usually used in combination): many-hued; golden-hued.
- musclehead — a muscular man, esp. one who is involved in bodybuilding, weight lifting, etc.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- phyllodium — phyllode.
- ploughhead — the draught iron of a plough
- ploughland — land that is ploughed for growing crops
- reschedule — to schedule for another or later time: to reschedule a baseball game because of rain.
- roundheels — a prostitute.
- scheduling — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- shellbound — encased in, or confined to, a shell
- shield bug — any shield-shaped herbivorous heteropterous insect of the superfamily Pentamoidea, esp any of the family Pentatomidae
- slush fund — a sum of money used for illicit or corrupt political purposes, as for buying influence.
- sound hole — an opening in the soundboard of a musical stringed instrument, as a violin or lute, for increasing the soundboard's capacity for vibration.
- southfield — a city in SE Michigan, W of Detroit.
- study hall — (in some schools) a room used solely or chiefly for studying.
- sulfhydryl — mercapto.
- sulphoxide — any compound containing a sulphinyl group (SO) and a hydrocarbon radical
- sun-shield — something put over the windscreen of a car to keep the sun out
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.