10-letter words containing e, t, h, r
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- heptameron — A literary work whose action covers a period of seven days.
- heptameter — a verse of seven metrical feet.
- heraclitus — ("the Obscure") c540–c470 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- herbal tea — drink: plant infusion
- herbalists — Plural form of herbalist.
- hereabouts — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- hereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- heredities — Plural form of heredity.
- hereditist — hereditarian.
- hereticate — to declare as heresy or as a heretic
- heretofore — before this time; until now.
- heriotable — liable for the payment of a heriot
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- hermetical — made airtight by fusion or sealing.
- hermitages — Plural form of hermitage.
- hermitical — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- hermitlike — Resembling or characteristic of a hermit.
- herniation — to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.
- herniotomy — correction of a hernia by a cutting procedure.
- herrnhuter — Moravian (def 4).
- herskowitz — Melville (Jean) 1895–1963, American anthropologist.
- herstories — Plural form of herstory.
- hesitatory — Hesitating.
- heterarchy — (uncountable) The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.
- heteroatom — an atom other than carbon in the ring structure of a heterocyclic compound.
- heterocyst — one of the enlarged nitrogen-fixing cells occurring along the filaments in some blue-green algae.
- heterodont — (of most mammals) having teeth of different types
- heterodoxy — heterodox state or quality.
- heterodyne — noting or pertaining to a method of changing the frequency of an incoming radio signal by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals.
- heterogamy — heterogamous state.
- heterogeny — the condition or state of being heterogenous
- heterogony — the alternation of dioecious and hermaphroditic individuals in successive generations, as in certain nematodes.
- heterokont — any organism that possesses two flagella of unequal length. Heterokonts include diatoms and some other algae
- heterology — Biology. the lack of correspondence of apparently similar organic structures as the result of unlike origins of constituent parts.
- heteronomy — the condition of being under the domination of an outside authority, either human or divine.
- heteronyms — Plural form of heteronym.
- heterophil — Also, heterophilic. Immunology. (of an antibody) having an affinity for an antigen other than its specific antigen.
- heuristics — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hexameters — Plural form of hexameter.
- hey presto — magician's conjuring words
- hibernated — Simple past tense and past participle of hibernate.
- hibernates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hibernate.
- hibernator — Something that hibernates.
- hieratical — Also, hieratical. of or relating to priests or the priesthood; sacerdotal; priestly.
- hierolatry — worship or veneration of saints or sacred things.
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- high water — water at its greatest elevation, as in a river.
- highermost — highest
- hilarities — cheerfulness; merriment; mirthfulness.