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10-letter words containing y, e, d, o

  • euroclydon — a stormy wind from the north or northeast that occurs in the Levant, which caused the ship in which St Paul was travelling to be wrecked (Acts 27:14)
  • eye doctor — ophthalmologist
  • eye of day — the sun
  • eye shadow — make-up for the eyelids
  • eyedropper — A dropper for administering eye-drops.
  • flunkeydom — The state of a being a flunkey.
  • food cycle — food web
  • fundectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
  • gadzookery — the use or overuse of period-specific or archaic expressions, as in a historical novel: Without any gadzookery and its excessive use of “forsooth,” “prithee,” etc., her first historical novel conveys a superb sense of the period.
  • gladsomely — (archaic) gladly.
  • glycosides — Plural form of glycoside.
  • goggleeyed — Alternative spelling of goggle-eyed.
  • golden boy — a man or boy who is especially popular and successful
  • goldeneyes — Plural form of goldeneye.
  • goliardery — one of a class of wandering scholar-poets in Germany, France, and England, chiefly in the 12th and 13th centuries, noted as the authors of satirical Latin verse written in celebration of conviviality, sensual pleasures, etc.
  • gooneybird — an informal name for the albatross, esp the black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes)
  • grey nomad — any elderly retired person who spends time travelling around the country in a mobile home
  • greyed out — (of a navigation button, menu item, etc on a computer screen) not highlighted, indicating that the function is unavailable at a given time
  • greyhounds — Plural form of greyhound.
  • groundedly — in a grounded manner, or with good justification or reason
  • handsomely — in a handsome manner; pleasingly; successfully.
  • handywomen — Plural form of handywoman.
  • hard money — (in the US) money given directly to a candidate in an election to assist his or her campaign
  • head money — a tax of so much per head or person.
  • henry fordElizabeth Bloomer ("Betty") 1918–2011, U.S. First Lady 1974–77 (wife of Gerald R. Ford).
  • heterodoxy — heterodox state or quality.
  • heterodyne — noting or pertaining to a method of changing the frequency of an incoming radio signal by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals.
  • hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
  • hidey hole — a nook or cranny used as a hiding place.
  • hidey-hole — a nook or cranny used as a hiding place.
  • hollywired — Siliwood
  • holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
  • holystoned — Simple past tense and past participle of holystone.
  • home study — instruction in a subject given by mail and addressed to a student's home.
  • homostyled — (of a plant) having styles of the same form or length in all flowers.
  • honeyguide — any of a family (Indicatoridae) of small, heavily built, drab-colored piciform birds of Africa, Asia, and the East Indies: they are said to lead people or animals to bees' nests in order to eat the grubs and wax discarded by the people, etc. when they take the honeycombs
  • hoydenhood — the condition of a rude, ill-bred or boisterous and noisy girl or woman, or a tomboy
  • humouredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) In the manner of a specified kind of humour. See good-humouredly, bad-humouredly, ill-humouredly.
  • hydathodes — Plural form of hydathode.
  • hydra code — (humour, programming)   Code that cannot be fixed because each time a bug is remove, two new bugs grow in its place. Named after the many-headed Hydra of Greek mythology.
  • hydragogue — causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
  • hydrazoate — a salt of hydrazoic acid; azide.
  • hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
  • hydriodide — (chemistry) A compound of hydriodic acid with a base.
  • hydroceles — Plural form of hydrocele.
  • hydrochore — a plant that disperses seeds through water
  • hydrogenic — (chemistry) hydrogen-like.
  • hydrolases — Plural form of hydrolase.
  • hydrolized — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrolize.
  • hydrolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrolyse.
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