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 ford — Elizabeth 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.