10-letter words containing a, s, h, e
- hargreaves — James, died 1778, English inventor of spinning machinery.
- harlequins — Plural form of harlequin.
- harmlessly — In a harmless manner.
- 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.
- 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).
- harquebuse — Alternative form of harquebus.
- hartebeest — any large African antelope of the genus Alcelaphus, having ringed horns that curve backward: some species are endangered.
- haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
- harvesters — Plural form of harvester.
- harvesting — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- harvestman — daddy-longlegs (def 1).
- harvestmen — Plural form of harvestman.
- hash house — an inexpensive restaurant, diner, or the like, that serves a limited number of short-order dishes: We stopped for lunch at a roadside hash house.
- hash table — hash coding
- hash-house — an inexpensive restaurant, diner, or the like, that serves a limited number of short-order dishes: We stopped for lunch at a roadside hash house.
- hasslefree — (informal) troublefree.
- hastefully — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hatcheries — Plural form of hatchery.
- hatchments — Plural form of hatchment.
- hate sheet — a newspaper or other publication that consistently expresses biased hatred toward some national, racial, religious, or other group.
- hatshepsut — 1495–75 b.c, queen of Egypt.
- hattersley — Roy (Sydney George), Baron Hattersley of Sparkbrook. born 1932, British Labour politician; deputy leader of the Labour Party (1983–92); shadow home secretary (1980–83; 1987–92)
- haughtiest — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- hausfrauen — a housewife.
- haustellum — (in certain crustaceans and insects) an organ or part of the proboscis adapted for sucking blood or plant juices.
- haversacks — Plural form of haversack.
- hawfinches — Plural form of hawfinch.
- hawk's-eye — a dark-blue chatoyant quartz formed by the silicification of crocidolite, used for ornamental purposes. Compare tiger's-eye (def 1).
- hawseholes — Plural form of hawsehole.
- hawsepipes — Plural form of hawsepipe.
- hazardless — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- head louse — See under louse (def 1).
- 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.
- headcheese — a seasoned loaf made of the head meat, sometimes including the tongue or brains, of a calf or pig and molded in the natural aspic of the head.
- headedness — The state or quality of having a particular type of head.
- headframes — Plural form of headframe.
- headlessly — In a headless way.
- headlights — a light or lamp, usually equipped with a reflector, on the front of an automobile, locomotive, etc.
- headliners — Plural form of headliner.
- headmaster — the person in charge of a private school.
- headphones — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
- headpieces — Plural form of headpiece.
- heads down — [Sun] Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also hack mode and larval stage, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers.
- headsheets — the sheet of a foresail; foresheet