10-letter words containing n, d, o, u
- groundside — the part of an airport not used for aircraft takeoffs and landings.
- groundsill — the lowermost sill of a framed structure, especially one lying close to the ground.
- groundsman — A male groundskeeper.
- groundsmen — Plural form of groundsman.
- groundward — Towards the ground.
- groundwood — wood that has been ground for making into pulp.
- groundwork — foundation or basis: He laid the groundwork for an international conference.
- groundworm — (dialectal, dated) earthworm.
- gynandrous — having stamens and pistils united in a column, as in orchids.
- half-bound — bound in half binding.
- 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-round — semicircular in cross section, as a molding or piece of type.
- hand-bound — (of books) bound by hand.
- hard-bound — hardcover
- haut monde — high society.
- head count — an inventory of people in a group taken by counting individuals.
- head wound — a wound to the head
- hellhounds — Plural form of hellhound.
- hexandrous — (of a plant) having six stamen
- hirudinoid — of, relating to, or resembling a leech.
- hirudinous — leech-like
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- honeyguide — any of a family (Indicatoridae) of small, heavily built, drab-colored piciform birds of Africa, Asia, and the East Indies: they are said to lead people or animals to bees' nests in order to eat the grubs and wax discarded by the people, etc. when they take the honeycombs
- horrendous — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- housebound — restricted to the house, as by bad weather or illness.
- huddleston — (Ernest Urban) Trevor, 1913–1998, English Anglican archbishop and antiapartheid activist in Africa.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- human body — the physical structure and material substance of a human being, consisting of many billions of cells as well as components outside of the cells: The average adult human body is 50–65% water.
- humdudgeon — an imaginary illness
- hunky-dory — about as well as one could wish or expect; satisfactory; fine; OK.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- huntingdon — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- id nouveau — A dataflow language by Arvind <[email protected]> and R.S. Nikhil <[email protected]>, MIT LCS, ca. 1986. Id Nouveau began as a functional language, added streams, resource managers and I-structures (mutable arrays). Loops are syntactic sugar for tail recursion. See also Id.
- iguanodons — Plural form of iguanodon.
- illusioned — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
- importuned — Simple past tense and past participle of importune.
- impounding — to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
- in custody — Someone who is in custody or has been taken into custody has been arrested and is being kept in prison until they can be tried in a court.
- in-and-out — in or participating in a particular job, investment, etc., for a short time and then out, especially after realizing a quick profit.
- inch-pound — one-twelfth of a foot-pound. Abbreviation: in-lb.
- incouraged — Simple past tense and past participle of incourage.
- indecorous — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- indextrous — not possessing dexterity
- indigenous — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- inducteous — Rendered electropolar by induction, or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies.
- inductions — Plural form of induction.
- induration — the act of indurating.
- industrio- — industrial, industrial and
- infrasound — sound with frequencies below the audible range.