10-letter words containing r, h, d
- kerchiefed — Wearing a kerchief.
- khidmatgar — (in India) a waiter.
- khidmutgar — a male servant, esp one who serves at table
- kirovohrad — Kirovograd.
- kodachrome — (lowercase) a positive color transparency.
- kronshtadt — city & naval fortress on an island in NW Russia, on the Gulf of Finland: pop. 45,000
- kurdaitcha — (Australia) An aboriginal evil spirit; a sorcerer.
- lampholder — a fixture for an electric light bulb
- landholder — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
- lauderhill — a city in SE Florida: suburb of Fort Lauderdale.
- leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- lederhosen — Leather shorts with H-shaped suspenders, traditionally worn by men in Alpine regions such as Bavaria.
- lefthander — Alternative spelling of left-hander.
- leichhardt — Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈluːtvɪç). 1813–48, Australian explorer, born in Prussia. He disappeared during an attempt to cross Australia from East to West
- lethbridge — a city in S Alberta, in SW Canada.
- letterhead — a printed heading on stationery, especially one giving the name and address of a business concern, an institution, etc.
- lienholder — a person who has a lien on particular property.
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- lizardfish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
- loggerhead — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- loudhailer — (British) A megaphone or bullhorn.
- lower hold — the lowermost hold space in a hull having 'tween decks or a shelter deck.
- maidenhair — any fern of the genus Adiantum, the cultivated species of which have fine, glossy stalks and delicate, finely divided fronds.
- man orchid — an orchid, Aceras anthropophorum, having greenish or reddish flowers in a loose spike, with a deeply lobed dark brown lip thought to resemble the silhouette of a man
- marblehead — a resort in NE Massachusetts: yachting.
- marchlands — Plural form of marchland.
- marsh deer — a large South American deer, Blastocerus dichotomus, that lives in forests near rivers and swamps: an endangered species.
- marshalled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- marshlands — Plural form of marshland.
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- methedrine — Methamphetamine.
- methyl red — a water-insoluble solid occurring as a dark-red powder or violet crystals, C 1 5 H 1 5 N 3 O 2 , used chiefly as an acid-base indicator.
- mischarged — Simple past tense and past participle of mischarge.
- mithridate — a confection believed to contain an antidote to every poison.
- ml threads — SML/NJ with mutual exclusion primitives similar to those in Modula-2+ and Mesa. Written by Greg Morrisett <[email protected]>. Implementations for Motorola 68020, SPARC and MIPS and VAX- and MIPS-based multiprocessors.
- monochords — Plural form of monochord.
- monohybrid — the offspring of individuals that differ with respect to a particular gene pair.
- monohydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) monohydroxy.
- monorhymed — rhymed on a single rhyme
- morphodite — (informal, slang) A comic slang version of hermaphrodite.
- motherhood — the state of being a mother; maternity.
- motherland — one's native land.
- motherload — A very large amount of something valuable.
- motherlode — (literally) The main, central lode of a natural resource, near which smaller deposits of the same ore etc. exist.
- mouthguard — A device that fits into the mouth over one or both arches of teeth, which is usually made of plastic. They may be used to protect aginst injury during sport or fighting, or may serve a medical purpose.
- murphy bed — a bed constructed so that it can be folded or swung into a closet.
- mushroomed — Simple past tense and past participle of mushroom.
- narrowhead — Applied to various kinds of animals with a narrow head.