10-letter words containing n, e, d, h
- narrowhead — Applied to various kinds of animals with a narrow head.
- needlefish — any fish of the family Belonidae, of warm seas and coastal fresh waters, having a sharp beak and needlelike teeth.
- neighbored — Simple past tense and past participle of neighbor.
- nephridial — Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
- nephridium — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- netherward — bottom-most, lowest
- newshounds — Plural form of newshound.
- niggerhead — (nautical, dated, now offensive) A bollard made from an old cannon.
- night mode — phase
- nightdream — A dream that is experienced at night, sometimes as distinguished from a daydream. (from 16th c.).
- nightdress — nightclothes.
- nightrider — one of a band of mounted men, especially in the southern U.S. during Reconstruction, who committed nocturnal acts of violence and intimidation against blacks and black sympathizers.
- nightshade — any of various plants of the genus Solanum, especially the black nightshade or the bittersweet.
- nightsides — Plural form of nightside.
- node house — a prefabricated shelter used by welders during the construction of an oil rig
- nonsighted — having no eyesight; unsighted; blind.
- noodlehead — a fool or simpleton; dolt; blockhead.
- nordhausen — a city in central Germany: site of a former Nazi concentration camp.
- north node — the ascending node of the moon.
- northfield — a town in SE Minnesota.
- noteholder — a person who holds or owns a note, as a promissory or Treasury note.
- novicehood — the condition of a novice
- nursehound — a species of European dogfish, Scyliorrhinus caniculus
- octahedron — a solid figure having eight faces.
- ogden nash — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- ohnosecond — (unit, humour) (Presumably a play on "nanosecond") The miniscule time it takes to realize that you've just made a BIG mistake like typing rm -rf * in the wrong directory. Seen in Elizabeth P. Crowe's book, "The Electronic Traveller."
- oil-harden — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
- old french — the French language of the 9th through the 13th centuries. Abbreviation: OF.
- on the dot — a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
- on the nod — If a proposal is accepted on the nod, it is accepted without being questioned or argued about.
- on the pad — a cushionlike mass of soft material used for comfort, protection, or stuffing.
- one-handed — having or using only one hand: The left fielder made a one-handed catch of the fly ball.
- openhanded — generous; liberal: openhanded hospitality.
- otterhound — one of an English breed of water dogs having a thick, shaggy, oily coat, trained to hunt otter.
- overhandle — to handle, or mention, too much
- panhandler — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
- parenthood — the state, position, or relation of a parent.
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- personhood — the state or fact of being a person.
- phagedaena — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phagedenic — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phenol red — a bright to dark red crystalline compound, C 1 9 H 1 4 O 5 S, slightly soluble in water, alcohol, and acetone: used as an acid-base indicator and as a diagnostic reagent in medicine.
- phenolated — containing phenol; carbolated.
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- polyhedron — a solid figure having many faces.
- prehominid — any of the extinct humanlike primates classified in the former family Prehominidae.
- princehood — the office or rank of a prince
- punched-up — a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
- radiophone — a radiotelephone.