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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.
  • harmsworthAlfred 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.
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