10-letter words containing s, h, i, l, o
- loincloths — Plural form of loincloth.
- los mochis — a city in Sinaloa state, NW Mexico.
- louis heel — a French heel of medium height, flared out or widened at the base, used on women's shoes.
- lousy with — infested with lice.
- lyophilise — Alternative spelling of lyophilize.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- mesolithic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a transitional period of the Stone Age intermediate between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic periods, characterized by adaptation to a hunting, collecting, and fishing economy based on the use of forest, lakeside, and seashore environments; Epipaleolithic.
- mesolonghi — Missolonghi.
- mesophilic — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.
- microliths — Plural form of microlith.
- millionths — Plural form of millionth.
- minischool — an alternative educational institution, usually offering specialized or individual instruction.
- moonlights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moonlight.
- museophile — One who loves museums.
- mysophilia — a pathological attraction to dirt or filth.
- nicholas i — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
- nicholas v — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- night soil — human excrement collected and used as fertilizer.
- nonhostile — Not hostile; free of hostility.
- oenophiles — Plural form of oenophile.
- old danish — the Danish language as spoken and written from the 9th to the 14th centuries.
- old-siwash — a conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often preceded by old): students from old Siwash.
- oughtlings — at all
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- overlavish — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- philosophe — any of the popular French intellectuals or social philosophers of the 18th century, as Diderot, Rousseau, or Voltaire.
- philosophy — the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
- phlogistic — Pathology. inflammatory.
- phlogiston — a nonexistent chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion.
- pholidosis — the layout or disposition of the scales of reptiles
- photolysis — the chemical decomposition of materials under the influence of light.
- physiology — the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- pilot fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilot-fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
- pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
- polish off — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- polishment — the state of being polished or the action of polishing
- polo shirt — a short-sleeved, pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton or cottonlike knit, with a round neckband or a turnover collar.
- polyhistor — a person of great and varied learning.
- polyphasic — having more than two phases.
- polytheism — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- polytheist — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- postflight — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a flight
- psilophyte — any plant that is adapted to grow well in the dry savannah
- rifle shot — sound of shotgun fire
- rothschild — Lionel Nathan, Baron de ("Lord Natty") 1809–79, English banker: first Jewish member of Parliament (son of Nathan Meyer Rothschild).