10-letter words containing e, t, h, i
- home birth — If a woman has a home birth, she gives birth to her baby at home rather than in a hospital.
- home visit — a visit by a health professional to a patient in their home
- home-built — built at home
- homeotypic — of or relating to the second division in meiosis.
- homiletics — the art of preaching; the branch of practical theology that treats of homilies or sermons.
- homoerotic — a tendency to be sexually aroused by a member of the same sex.
- homoleptic — (chemistry) Describing an organometallic compound having a single type of ligand.
- homothetic — similar; similarly placed.
- horsetails — Plural form of horsetail.
- horsethief — Alternative spelling of horse thief.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- hostelling — Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
- hostelries — Plural form of hostelry.
- hostessing — a woman who receives and entertains guests in her own home or elsewhere.
- hosts file — (networking) A text file on a networked computer used to associate host names with IP addresses. A hosts file contains lines consisting of whitespace-separated fields giving an IP address followed by list of host names or aliases associated with that address. The name resolution library software can use this file to look up the IP address for a host name. The hosts file is "/etc/hosts" on Unix and "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" or "lmhosts" on Microsoft Windows, In most cases, hosts files have now been almost entirely replaced by DNS, in which distributed servers provide the same information. A hosts file can still be used to override DNS for testing purposes or other special situations.
- hot ticket — an extremely popular or trendy person or thing; a person or thing in high demand.
- hot-dipped — coated by being dipped into molten tin or zinc.
- hotel limo — A hotel limo is a large and very comfortable car. Hotel limos usually have a driver and are hired to bring guests to and from the hotel.
- hotel ship — a ship which is moored and used as a hotel
- hotel-dieu — a hospital.
- houselight — One of the lights in an auditorium.
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- hovertrain — an experimental high-speed train that rides on a cushion of air over a concrete guide track in the shape of an inverted T and is propelled by one or more propellers or jet engines.
- huebnerite — a reddish-brown mineral of the wolframite group, manganese tungstate, MnWO 4 , a minor ore of tungsten.
- humanities — all human beings collectively; the human race; humankind.
- humidities — Plural form of humidity.
- humiliated — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- humiliates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humiliate.
- humilities — the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc.
- huntiegowk — a fool's errand or a person sent on an April fool's errand
- huntsville — a city in N Alabama: rocket and missile center.
- hut circle — a circle of earth or stones representing the site of a prehistoric hut
- hy antigen — an antigen encoded by a gene on the Y (male) chromosome, active in the development of male structures.
- hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
- hydrastine — an alkaloid, C 21 H 21 NO 6 , that is extracted from the roots of goldenseal and forms prismatic crystals: used as an astringent and to inhibit uterine bleeding.
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hygienists — Plural form of hygienist.
- hylotheism — any philosophical doctrine identifying a god or gods with matter.
- hylotheist — an adherent of hylotheism
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hyperlight — Faster than light speed.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hypertonic — Physiology. of or relating to hypertonia.
- hypertoxic — of, pertaining to, affected with, or caused by a toxin or poison: a toxic condition.
- hypnotised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypnotise.
- hypnotises — to put in the hypnotic state.