10-letter words containing a, s, h, t
- halloysite — a refractory clay mineral similar in composition to kaolinite.
- halobionts — Plural form of halobiont.
- halophytes — Plural form of halophyte.
- ham sth up — If actors or actresses ham it up, they exaggerate every emotion and gesture when they are acting, often deliberately because they think that the audience will be more amused.
- ham-fisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hamantasch — a small triangular cake often made with yeast and filled with a mixture of poppy seeds and honey or with prune paste, prepared especially for the festival of Purim.
- hammerfest — a seaport in N Norway: the northernmost town in Europe.
- hammertoes — Plural form of hammertoe.
- hamstrings — Plural form of hamstring.
- 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
- handbasket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handcrafts — Plural form of handcraft.
- handfasted — Simple past tense and past participle of handfast.
- handprints — Plural form of handprint.
- handsomest — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handstands — Plural form of handstand.
- handstitch — to stitch or sew by hand.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- hantavirus — any of several viruses of the family Bunyaviridae, spread chiefly by wild rodents, that cause acute respiratory illness, kidney failure, and other syndromes.
- haplotypes — Plural form of haplotype.
- happy dust — cocaine.
- happy-dust — cocaine.
- harassment — the act or an instance of harassing, or disturbing, pestering, or troubling repeatedly; persecution: She sued her boss for sexual harassment.
- hard paste — true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
- hard stuff — strongly addictive drugs.
- hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hard-asset — denoting an asset with intrinsic value: diamonds and other hard-asset commodities.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- harmattans — Plural form of harmattan.
- harmonists — Plural form of harmonist.
- harmsworth — Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe, 1865–1922, English journalist, publisher, and politician.
- hartebeest — any large African antelope of the genus Alcelaphus, having ringed horns that curve backward: some species are endangered.
- harvesters — Plural form of harvester.
- harvesting — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- harvestman — daddy-longlegs (def 1).
- harvestmen — Plural form of harvestman.
- hash table — hash coding
- hastefully — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hatchbacks — Plural form of hatchback.
- hatcheries — Plural form of hatchery.
- hatchlings — Plural form of hatchling.
- 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.
- haustellum — (in certain crustaceans and insects) an organ or part of the proboscis adapted for sucking blood or plant juices.
- haustorium — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- 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.