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10-letter words containing d, e, h, a, i

  • hair slide — a hinged clip with a tortoiseshell, bone, or similar back, used to fasten the hair
  • halberdier — a soldier, guard, or attendant armed with a halberd.
  • halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
  • ham-fisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
  • 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.
  • hansardize — to prove that (a member of parliament) has changed his views from those quoted in Hansard
  • 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.
  • harmonised — Simple past tense and past participle of harmonise.
  • harmonized — Add notes to (a melody) to produce harmony.
  • 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 voice — the high register of the human voice, in which the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head
  • 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.
  • headlights — a light or lamp, usually equipped with a reflector, on the front of an automobile, locomotive, etc.
  • headliners — Plural form of headliner.
  • headlining — a heading in a newspaper for any written material, sometimes for an illustration, to indicate subject matter, set in larger type than that of the copy and containing one or more words and lines and often several banks.
  • headpieces — Plural form of headpiece.
  • headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
  • headstripe — A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
  • headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
  • hearthside — fireside.
  • heat devil — a wavering, shimmering disturbance of air above or around a hot surface.
  • heat index — a number representing the effect of temperature and humidity on humans by combining the two variables into an “apparent” temperature, introduced as a replacement for the temperature-humidity index: a temperature of 90° and relative humidity of 65 percent combine to produce a heat index of 102. Abbreviation: H.I.
  • heatshield — A system designed to protect what is behind it against heat.
  • heidenstam — Verner von [ver-nuh r fawn] /ˈvɛr nər fɔn/ (Show IPA), 1859–1940, Swedish poet and novelist: Nobel Prize 1916.
  • helicoidal — coiled or curving like a spiral.
  • heligoland — Helgoland.
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  • hemihedral — (of a crystal) having only half the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
  • heptapodic — having seven metrical feet
  • heraclidae — a drama (429? b.c.) by Euripides.
  • heraldship — the office or position of a herald
  • herbicidal — Of, or relating to herbicides.
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