10-letter words containing h, a, l, e, r
- 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).
- pheromonal — relating to or constituting a pheromone
- phlebogram — venogram.
- phloem ray — a vascular ray extending into or located entirely within the secondary phloem.
- phraseless — lacking in a phrase or phrases
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- phylloxera — any of several plant lice of the genus Phylloxera, especially P. vitifoliae (grape phylloxera) which attacks the leaves and roots of grapevines.
- pileorhiza — a calyptra
- polyhedral — of, relating to, or having the shape of a polyhedron.
- pre-launch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- preholiday — relating to the period before a holiday
- raise hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- ramshackle — dilapidated, run down
- ranshackle — to ransack
- rattlehead — a rattlebrain.
- re-hauling — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
- rear light — vehicle's tail or back light
- rear wheel — any wheel at the back of a motor vehicle
- regal moth — a large moth, Citheronia regalis, having yellow spots on gray to olive forewings and on orange-red hind wings.
- rehandling — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- relishable — liking or enjoyment of the taste of something.
- rhetorical — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rhizoplane — the part of the root of a plant that is near the soil surface
- roche alum — an alumlike substance derived from alunite.
- salt horse — salted beef; salt junk.
- saltshaker — table-salt dispenser
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- schefflera — any of various tropical trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Schefflera, of the ginseng family, having glossy, palmately compound leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- scrollhead — billethead.
- searchable — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- searchless — unsearchable; inscrutable.
- sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
- shark bell — a bell sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
- shear cell — A shear cell is a device for testing how a powder or particle mixture flows.
- shear legs — shear (def 16).
- shelf mark — a symbol indicating the location of a work on a shelf.
- shell star — a type of star showing bright emission lines superimposed on its normal absorption spectrum, presumably caused by a gaseous shell around the star.
- shetlander — a native or inhabitant of Shetland
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- shore lark — a bird: Eremophila alpestris
- short sale — an act or instance of selling short.
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- solar-heat — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- sphalerite — a very common mineral, zinc sulfide, ZnS, usually containing some iron and a little cadmium, occurring in yellow, brown, or black crystals or cleavable masses with resinous luster: the principal ore of zinc and cadmium; blackjack.
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- stadholder — the chief magistrate of the former republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.