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10-letter words containing e, u, h, a, r

  • outreaches — Plural form of outreach.
  • overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
  • overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
  • overtaught — taught to excess
  • pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
  • peak hours — prime time, busiest period
  • phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
  • pre-launch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
  • quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
  • ratchet up — If something ratchets up or is ratcheted up, it increases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to decrease again.
  • re-hauling — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
  • rehumanize — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
  • repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
  • rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
  • rheumatism — any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness.
  • rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
  • rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
  • roche alum — an alumlike substance derived from alunite.
  • routemarch — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
  • rudderhead — the upper end of a rudderpost, to which a tiller, quadrant, or yoke is attached.
  • rugby head — a male follower of rugby culture
  • schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
  • schumacher — Ernst Friedrich (ɛrnst ˈfriːdrɪç). 1911–77, British economist, born in Germany. He is best known for his book Small is Beautiful (1973)
  • sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
  • search out — hunt for, seek
  • sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
  • sharpen up — hone, refine
  • shear stud — a stud that transfers shear stress between metal and concrete in composite structural members in which the stud is welded to the metal component
  • slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
  • squabasher — a person who squabashes someone or something
  • squarehead — a stupid person.
  • squirearch — a member of the squirearchy.
  • subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
  • subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
  • subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
  • sugarhouse — a shed or other building where maple syrup or maple sugar is made.
  • sulphurate — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
  • superheavy — Chemistry, Physics. pertaining to any of a series of elements having an atomic number greater than 103.
  • superhuman — above or beyond what is human; having a higher nature or greater powers than humans have: a superhuman being.
  • supermacho — extremely macho
  • supersharp — extremely sharp
  • sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
  • tannhauser — a German lyric poet of the 13th century: a well-known legend tells of his stay with Venus in the Venusberg and his later repentance.
  • the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
  • the cratur — whisky or whiskey
  • thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
  • thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
  • touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • trachelium — (in classical architecture) any member between the hypotrachelium and the capital of a column.
  • trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
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