10-letter words containing a, d, r, s
- harborside — bordering a harbor.
- hard crash — (programming) When a program stops running completely and unexpectedly, often due to external events, e.g. the CPU overheating or an unrecoverable memory error. See also disk crash.
- hard goods — durable goods
- hard grass — any of several types of coarse grass
- hard lines — bad luck
- hard paste — true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
- hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
- hard stuff — strongly addictive drugs.
- hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hard yards — a great deal of effort or hard work, esp in playing a sport
- hard-assed — tough and uncompromising
- hard-asset — denoting an asset with intrinsic value: diamonds and other hard-asset commodities.
- hard-nosed — hardheaded or tough; unsentimentally practical: a hard-nosed labor leader.
- hard-shell — Also, hard-shelled. having a firm, hard shell, as a crab in its normal state; not having recently molted.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- hardliners — Plural form of hardliner.
- hardnesses — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
- harmonised — Simple past tense and past participle of harmonise.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- hazardless — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- head nurse — the chief nurse in a hospital; matron
- head start — an advantage given or acquired in any competition, endeavor, etc., as allowing one or more competitors in a race to start before the others.
- head-first — If you move head-first in a particular direction, your head is the part of your body that is furthest forward as you are moving.
- headboards — Plural form of headboard.
- headframes — Plural form of headframe.
- headliners — Plural form of headliner.
- headmaster — the person in charge of a private school.
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- headsquare — a scarf worn on the head
- headstream — a stream that is the source, or one of the sources, of a river.
- headstripe — A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
- headstrong — determined to have one's own way; willful; stubborn; obstinate: a headstrong young man.
- headwaters — The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- hearthside — fireside.
- heartlands — Plural form of heartland.
- heraldship — the office or position of a herald
- herdswoman — The female equivalent of a herdsman.
- hexachords — Plural form of hexachord.
- hexandrous — (of a plant) having six stamen
- hindbrains — Plural form of hindbrain.
- hinderlans — the buttocks
- hindrances — Plural form of hindrance.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- horsedrawn — Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- hydrangeas — Plural form of hydrangea.
- hydrastine — an alkaloid, C 21 H 21 NO 6 , that is extracted from the roots of goldenseal and forms prismatic crystals: used as an astringent and to inhibit uterine bleeding.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydrazides — Plural form of hydrazide.