10-letter words containing e, a, r, t, h
- had better — that which has greater excellence or is preferable or wiser: the better of two choices.
- had rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.
- haematuria — Alternative spelling of hematuria.
- haemometer — A hemadynamometer.
- hagerstown — a city in NW Maryland.
- hair style — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- haircutter — A barber.
- hairstreak — any small, dark butterfly of the family Lycaenidae, having hairlike tails on the hind wings.
- hairstyles — Plural form of hairstyle.
- hairy tare — Vicia hirsuta, a vetch plant of Eurasia and N Africa
- halberstam — David, 1934–2007, U.S. writer.
- half tiger — a five-rand coin
- half-liter — a unit of capacity equal to 500 cubic centimeters.
- halterneck — A single strap or material which runs from the front of the garment around the back of the wearer's neck, leaving most of the back uncovered, often used in swimsuits and women's dresses.
- hammer out — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- hammerfest — a seaport in N Norway: the northernmost town in Europe.
- hammertoes — Plural form of hammertoe.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- haptometer — a mechanical device for measuring the sense of touch.
- 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 times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hard water — water that contains magnesium, calcium, or iron salts and therefore forms a soap lather with difficulty.
- hard wheat — a wheat, as durum wheat, characterized by flinty, dark-colored kernels that yield a flour used in making bread, macaroni, etc.
- hard-asset — denoting an asset with intrinsic value: diamonds and other hard-asset commodities.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- hartebeest — any large African antelope of the genus Alcelaphus, having ringed horns that curve backward: some species are endangered.
- hartlepool — a seaport city in NE England.
- harvesters — Plural form of harvester.
- harvesting — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- harvestman — daddy-longlegs (def 1).
- harvestmen — Plural form of harvestman.
- hatcheries — Plural form of hatchery.
- hate crime — a crime, usually violent, motivated by prejudice or intolerance toward an individual’s national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
- hatemonger — a person who kindles hatred, enmity, or prejudice in others.
- hateration — (African American Vernacular English, slang) Hatred, hostility, animus.
- hateworthy — Worthy of being hated, detestable, despicable.
- 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)
- 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.
- headhunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- headmaster — the person in charge of a private school.
- 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.
- healthcare — the field concerned with the maintenance or restoration of the health of the body or mind.