10-letter words containing h, a, o
- hippophagy — the practice of eating horseflesh.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- hispaniola — an island in the West Indies, comprising the republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 29,843 sq. mi. (77,293 sq. km).
- histoblast — a cell or group of cells capable of forming tissue.
- histograms — Plural form of histogram.
- historians — Plural form of historian.
- historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- hoabinhian — of, relating to, or typifying a middle to late Stone Age culture found in southeast Asia that is characterized chiefly by agricultural village settlements.
- hoarseness — having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky: the hoarse voice of the auctioneer.
- hobohemian — Of, or pertaining to, a hobohemia.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- hog badger — a SE Asian badger, Arctonyx collaris, with a piglike mobile snout
- hog heaven — heaven (def 6).
- hog peanut — a twining plant, Amphicarpaea bracteata, of the legume family, bearing pods that ripen in or on the ground.
- hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.
- hogarthian — William, 1697–1764, English painter and engraver.
- hol hamoed — the period between the first and last two days of Passover or Sukkoth, consisting of four days during Passover and five days during Sukkoth and having less than full festival status.
- hold hands — clasp each another's hand
- hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- holidaying — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- hollow sea — an ocean wave formation in which the rise from troughs to crests is very steep.
- hollowware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
- holocarpic — (of a fungus) having the entire thallus converted into fruiting bodies.
- holocausts — Plural form of holocaust.
- hologamous — of or relating to an organism having reproductive cells similar in size and structure to the somatic cells.
- holographs — Plural form of holograph.
- holography — the process or technique of making holograms.
- holohedral — (of a crystal) having all the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
- holophotal — reflecting and redirecting all or a large amount of the light from a source
- holophrase — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- holy grail — grail (def 1).
- holy grass — any of several fragrant grasses of the genus Hierochloë, especially H. odorata, the vanilla grass.
- holy place — somewhere sacred
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- homaloidal — (of a space or surface, etc) flat, in the form of a plane
- home brand — an item packaged and marketed under the brand name of a particular retailer, usually a large supermarket chain, rather than that of the manufacturer
- home guard — a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.
- home leave — holiday time for a person who works abroad, during which they can go home
- home match — a match played on a team's home ground
- home plate — the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.
- home range — the area in which an animal normally lives.
- home sales — the sale of houses and flats; property sales
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- home stand — a series of consecutive sports events, as baseball games, played in a team's own stadium.
- home state — the state where a person comes from, or where they live
- home-alone — (esp of a young child) left in a house, flat, etc unattended
- home-baked — baked at home; home-made
- homemakers — Plural form of homemaker.