10-letter words containing h, a, r, d, c, o
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- encroached — Simple past tense and past participle of encroach.
- grand chop — (in China and India trade) a customs clearance.
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- handscroll — A traditional Asian scroll that unfolds horizontally so that the reader can view one section at a time while holding it in the hands.
- hard court — a tennis court having a concrete or asphalt surface.
- hard-coded — (jargon) (By analogy with "hard-wired") Said of a data value or behaviour written directly into a program, possibly in multiple places, where it cannot be easily modified. There are several alternatives, depending on how often the value is likely to change. It may be replaced with a compile-time constant, such as a C "#define" macro, in which case a change will still require recompilation; or it may be read at run time from a profile, resource (see de-rezz), or environment variable that a user can easily modify; or it may be read as part of the program's input data. To change something hard-coded requires recompilation (if using a compiled language of course) but, more seriously, it requires sufficient understanding of the implementation to be sure that the change will not introduce inconsistency and cause the program to fail. For example, "The line terminator is hard-coded as newline; who in their right mind would use anything else?" See magic number.
- hard-knock — beset with hardship.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- headcollar — A bitless headpiece for leading or tying up a horse.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- hexachords — Plural form of hexachord.
- honor card — honor (def 11).
- hydra code — (humour, programming) Code that cannot be fixed because each time a bug is remove, two new bugs grow in its place. Named after the many-headed Hydra of Greek mythology.
- hydrocoral — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
- hydrocrack — to crack (petroleum or the like) in the presence of hydrogen.
- hydromancy — divination by means of the motions or appearance of water.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- kodachrome — (lowercase) a positive color transparency.
- man orchid — an orchid, Aceras anthropophorum, having greenish or reddish flowers in a loose spike, with a deeply lobed dark brown lip thought to resemble the silhouette of a man
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- octahedral — having the form of an octahedron.
- octahedron — a solid figure having eight faces.
- orcharding — the cultivation of orchards
- orchardist — a person who owns, manages, or cultivates an orchard.
- orchardman — A man who owns or tends an orchard.
- outmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of outmarch.
- outreached — Simple past tense and past participle of outreach.
- overarched — Simple past tense and past participle of overarch.
- patch cord — a short cord with a plug at each end, or a plug at one end and a pair of clips at the other, used for temporarily connecting two pieces of equipment or signal paths.
- patchboard — a device with a large number of sockets into which electrical plugs can be inserted to form many different temporary circuits: used in telephone exchanges, computer systems, etc
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- reproached — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- rhotacized — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
- round arch — an arch formed in a continuous curve, especially in a semicircle.
- saccharoid — having a granular texture like that of loaf sugar.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- schoolward — towards or in the direction of school
- schoolyard — a playground or sports field near a school.
- scrollhead — billethead.
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- tetrachord — a diatonic series of four tones, the first and last separated by a perfect fourth.
- trochoidal — like, arranged or in the form of a trochoid, or belonging or relating to trochoids
- tudor arch — a four-centered arch, the inner pair of curves having a radius much greater than that of the outer pair.
- unanchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.