10-letter words containing a, h, i, e
- halieutics — (literature) A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing.
- halleluiah — an exclamation of “hallelujah!”.
- halloysite — a refractory clay mineral similar in composition to kaolinite.
- haloclines — Plural form of halocline.
- halophiles — Plural form of halophile.
- ham-fisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hammerings — a series of punishments or beatings
- han cities — a group of three cities in E central China (Hanyang, Hankow, and Wuchang), in SE Hubei at the confluence of the Han and Yangtze Rivers; united in 1950 to form the conurbation of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province
- han fei zu — died 233 bc, Chinese diplomat and philosopher of law
- hand-drier — an electrical appliance, usually found in public toilets, that dries a person's hands through the expulsion of hot air
- hand-piece — handheld, power-operated shears used by a shearer
- hand-spike — a bar used as a lever.
- handmaiden — something that is necessarily subservient or subordinate to another: Ceremony is but the handmaid of worship.
- handpicked — Picked by hand; picked or selected with care.
- handpieces — Plural form of handpiece.
- handseling — Present participle of handsel.
- handspikes — Plural form of handspike.
- hanoverian — of or relating to the former ruling house of Hanover.
- hansardize — to prove that (a member of parliament) has changed his views from those quoted in Hansard
- happenings — something that happens; occurrence; event.
- harbingers — Plural form of harbinger.
- harborside — bordering a harbor.
- hard cider — the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- hard drive — hard disk drive
- hard lines — bad luck
- hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hard-liner — a person who adheres rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan.
- hard-wired — Computers. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- hardliners — Plural form of hardliner.
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- harlequins — Plural form of harlequin.
- harmonised — Simple past tense and past participle of harmonise.
- harmoniser — (British spelling) alternative spelling of harmonizer.
- harmonises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harmonise.
- harmonized — Add notes to (a melody) to produce harmony.
- harmonizer — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harmonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harmonize.
- harnessing — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
- haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
- harvesting — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- hatcheling — Present participle of hatchel.
- hatcheries — Plural form of hatchery.
- hate crime — a crime, usually violent, motivated by prejudice or intolerance toward an individual’s national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
- hateration — (African American Vernacular English, slang) Hatred, hostility, animus.
- haughtiest — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- have a fit — become angry, upset
- hawfinches — Plural form of hawfinch.
- hawsepipes — Plural form of hawsepipe.