10-letter words containing o, l, d, h
- handsomely — in a handsome manner; pleasingly; successfully.
- hard labor — compulsory labor imposed upon criminals in addition to imprisonment, generally not exceeding ordinary labor in severity or amount.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- harold iii — (Harold Hardrada) 1015–66, king of Norway 1045–66.
- 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
- hidalgoish — resembling a hidalgo
- hidalgoism — the position or practice of a hidalgo
- hidey hole — a nook or cranny used as a hiding place.
- hidey-hole — a nook or cranny used as a hiding place.
- hillingdon — a borough of Greater London, England.
- 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 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.
- hold forth — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- hold hands — clasp each another's hand
- hold on to — grasp, clutch
- hold still — If you hold still, you do not move.
- hold tight — grasp firmly
- 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.
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- 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.
- holidaying — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- hollywired — Siliwood
- holodiscus — a genus of flowering deciduous shrubs of the family Rosaceae
- 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.
- holy synod — the governing council of an autocephalous church, composed of bishops and presided over by the patriarch or another prelate.
- holystoned — Simple past tense and past participle of holystone.
- homaloidal — (of a space or surface, etc) flat, in the form of a plane
- 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.
- hoodlumish — like a hoodlum
- hoodlumism — Behavior characteristic of a hoodlum.
- 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.
- hydrocoral — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.