10-letter words containing a, r, d, e
- hard-shell — Also, hard-shelled. having a firm, hard shell, as a crab in its normal state; not having recently molted.
- 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.
- hardbacked — (of a book) Having a solid binding; hardback.
- hardballer — (informal) One who exhibits hardball (tough or ruthless) behaviour.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- harden off — to accustom (a cultivated plant) or (of such a plant) to become accustomed to outdoor conditions by repeated exposure
- hardenable — to make hard or harder: to harden steel.
- hardenberg — Novalis.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- hardhanded — Forceful, excessive, draconian, or abusive.
- hardheaded — not easily moved or deceived; practical; shrewd.
- hardliners — Plural form of hardliner.
- hardnesses — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- harmonised — Simple past tense and past participle of harmonise.
- harmonized — Add notes to (a melody) to produce harmony.
- harrumphed — to clear the throat audibly in a self-important manner: The professor harrumphed good-naturedly.
- hazardless — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- head clerk — a supervisor; manager
- head nurse — the chief nurse in a hospital; matron
- head rhyme — beginning rhyme.
- head right — Law. a beneficial interest for each member of an Indian tribe in the tribal trust fund accruing from the lease of tribal oil, gas, and mineral rights, the sale of tribal lands, etc.
- 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.
- head-right — Law. a beneficial interest for each member of an Indian tribe in the tribal trust fund accruing from the lease of tribal oil, gas, and mineral rights, the sale of tribal lands, etc.
- headbanger — metalhead.
- headboards — Plural form of headboard.
- headcollar — A bitless headpiece for leading or tying up a horse.
- headframes — Plural form of headframe.
- headhunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- 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.
- headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headwaters — The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- hearthside — fireside.
- heartlands — Plural form of heartland.
- heavenward — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- hebdomadar — (in Scottish universities and grammar schools) a name given to the member of staff whose weekly turn it is to supervise the behaviour of students
- hemihedral — (of a crystal) having only half the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
- henry dale — Sir Henry Hallett [hal-it] /ˈhæl ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1875–1968, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- heraclidae — a drama (429? b.c.) by Euripides.
- heraldship — the office or position of a herald
- herbicidal — Of, or relating to herbicides.