10-letter words containing t, e, l, o, s
- holosteric — (of an instrument or device) wholly constructed of solids, without any liquids
- holstering — Present participle of holster.
- holystoned — Simple past tense and past participle of holystone.
- holystones — Plural form of holystone.
- homiletics — the art of preaching; the branch of practical theology that treats of homilies or sermons.
- homostyled — (of a plant) having styles of the same form or length in all flowers.
- horsecloth — a cloth used to cover a horse, or as part of its trappings.
- horsetails — Plural form of horsetail.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- hospitable — 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.
- hostellers — Plural form of hosteller.
- hostelling — Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
- hostelries — Plural form of hostelry.
- hosts file — (networking) A text file on a networked computer used to associate host names with IP addresses. A hosts file contains lines consisting of whitespace-separated fields giving an IP address followed by list of host names or aliases associated with that address. The name resolution library software can use this file to look up the IP address for a host name. The hosts file is "/etc/hosts" on Unix and "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" or "lmhosts" on Microsoft Windows, In most cases, hosts files have now been almost entirely replaced by DNS, in which distributed servers provide the same information. A hosts file can still be used to override DNS for testing purposes or other special situations.
- hotel ship — a ship which is moored and used as a hotel
- houselight — One of the lights in an auditorium.
- 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.
- hydrolytes — a substance subjected to hydrolysis.
- hylotheism — any philosophical doctrine identifying a god or gods with matter.
- hylotheist — an adherent of hylotheism
- ideologist — an expert in ideology.
- idolatress — A female idolater.
- idolatries — Plural form of idolatry.
- ill-sorted — badly matched; poorly arranged.
- immodestly — not modest in conduct, utterance, etc.; indecent; shameless.
- in-solvent — not solvent; unable to satisfy creditors or discharge liabilities, either because liabilities exceed assets or because of inability to pay debts as they mature.
- inceptisol — a soil so young that horizons have just begun to form: especially prevalent in tundra areas.
- inoculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inoculate.
- inosculate — Join by intertwining or fitting closely together.
- insolently — boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting: an insolent reply.
- insolvents — Plural form of insolvent.
- interlocks — Plural form of interlock.
- interlopes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlope.
- interposal — (dated) interposure.
- irresolute — not resolute; doubtful; infirm of purpose; vacillating.
- isoelastic — noting or pertaining to a substance or system exhibiting uniform elasticity throughout.
- isolatable — isolable.
- isolatedly — separated from other persons or things; alone; solitary.
- isolateral — Having similar upper and lower (or front and back) surfaces.
- isoplethic — Relating to isopleths.
- isothermal — occurring at constant temperature.
- jon postel — (person) (Jonathan Bruce Postel, 1943 - 1998-10-16) /p*-stel'/ One of the Internet's founding fathers. Jon's name is prominent on many of the fundamental standards on which the Internet is built, such as UDP. He ran IANA for as long as anybody could remember, in fact for most of the time he *was* IANA. He wrote STD 1, STD 2 and several dozen other RFCs. His friend Vinton Cerf noted his passing in RFC 2468.
- jostlement — Crowding; hustling.
- kiloliters — Plural form of kiloliter.
- kilolitres — Plural form of kilolitre.
- kilometers — a unit of length, the common measure of distances equal to 1000 meters, and equivalent to 3280.8 feet or 0.621 mile. Abbreviation: km.
- kilometres — Plural form of kilometre.