10-letter words containing s, h, a, l, o
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- house call — a professional visit, as by a doctor or sales representative, to the home of a patient or customer.
- house flag — a flag flown by a merchant ship, bearing the emblem of its owners or operators.
- house sale — the sale of a house
- housecarls — Plural form of housecarl.
- houseclean — to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- humoralism — a theory of the composition and workings of the human body, based on the idea that it was filled with four basic substances, or humours, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.
- humoralist — a person who believes in humoralism
- hyaloplasm — ground substance.
- hydrolases — Plural form of hydrolase.
- hydrosomal — of or relating to a hydrosome
- hyoplastra — the second foremost pair of plastral bones in a turtle
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hypoblasts — Plural form of hypoblast.
- hypoplasia — Pathology. abnormal deficiency of cells or structural elements.
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- inhalators — Plural form of inhalator.
- island-hop — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isochronal — equal or uniform in time.
- isohalines — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- isothermal — occurring at constant temperature.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- katholikos — catholicos.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- l'hospital — Guillaume François Antoine de [gee-yohm frahn-swa ahn-twan duh] /giˈyoʊm frɑ̃ˈswa ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1661–1704, French mathematician.
- laccoliths — Plural form of laccolith.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lagomorphs — Plural form of lagomorph.
- lakeshores — Plural form of lakeshore.
- laser show — a display of coloured laser lights for entertainment purposes, often accompanying a music concert, etc
- late hours — rising and going to bed later than is usual
- law school — university where law degrees are taught
- leaseholds — Plural form of leasehold.
- lhasa apso — one of a breed of small terriers having a long, heavy coat, raised in Tibet as watchdogs.
- lithoclast — an instrument used to break up bladder stones
- lithophysa — a cavity or hollow found in volcanic rocks, caused by expanding gas
- liu shaoqi — 1898–1973, Chinese Communist leader: head of state 1959–66.
- loan shark — a person who lends money at excessively high rates of interest; usurer.
- loan-shift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- loathesome — Misspelling of loathsome.
- logarithms — Plural form of logarithm.
- logographs — Plural form of logograph.
- look sharp — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- loose head — the prop on the hooker's left in the front row of a scrum
- lose heart — to become despondent or disillusioned (over something)