10-letter words containing o, u, s, e, l
- 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.
- huddleston — (Ernest Urban) Trevor, 1913–1998, English Anglican archbishop and antiapartheid activist in Africa.
- hull house — a settlement house in Chicago, Ill., founded in 1889 by Jane Addams.
- humourless — (British spelling, Canadian) alternative spelling of humorless.
- ideologues — Plural form of ideologue.
- illusioned — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
- implexuous — not simple; complicated
- inoculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inoculate.
- inosculate — Join by intertwining or fitting closely together.
- involucres — Plural form of involucre.
- irresolute — not resolute; doubtful; infirm of purpose; vacillating.
- isoflurane — a volatile, halogenated ether, C 3 H 2 ClF 5 O, used as a general anesthetic in surgery.
- isoleucine — a crystalline amino acid, C 6 H 13 O 2 , occurring in proteins, that is essential to the nutrition of humans and animals. Symbol: I. Abbreviation: Ile;
- jealousies — Plural form of jealousy.
- journalese — a manner of writing or speaking characterized by clichés, occasional neologism, archness, sensationalizing adjectives, unusual or faulty syntax, etc., used by some journalists, especially certain columnists, and regarded as typical journalistic style.
- journalise — Alternative spelling of journalize.
- joyfulness — full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
- kilojoules — Plural form of kilojoule.
- la perouse — Jean François de Galaup [zhahn frahn-swa duh ga-loh] /ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃ˈswa də gaˈloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1741–88, French naval officer and explorer.
- laboursome — (obsolete) Hard-working.
- langoustes — Plural form of langouste.
- laniferous — wool-bearing: sheep and other laniferous animals.
- lanuginose — covered with lanugo, or soft, downy hairs.
- lardaceous — lardlike; fatty.
- late hours — rising and going to bed later than is usual
- launceston — a city on N Tasmania.
- lauraceous — belonging to the plant family Lauraceae.
- le creusot — a city in E central France.
- leguminous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or bearing legumes.
- leuco base — a noncolored or slightly colored compound that is produced by reducing a dye and is readily oxidized to regenerate the dye.
- leucoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- leucocytes — Plural form of leucocyte.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- leukoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- leukocytes — white blood cell.
- licentious — sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
- lighthouse — a tower or other structure displaying or flashing a very bright light for the guidance of ships in avoiding dangerous areas, in following certain routes, etc.
- liliaceous — of or like the lily.
- limousines — Plural form of limousine.
- long house — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.