10-letter words containing h, a, r, d, p
- hard paste — true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
- hard peach — a clingstone peach.
- hard power — the ability to achieve one's goals by force, esp military force
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- harrumphed — to clear the throat audibly in a self-important manner: The professor harrumphed good-naturedly.
- hazard pay — danger money
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- headstripe — A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- heraldship — the office or position of a herald
- hit parade — a listing or category of popular songs ranked according to their popularity with listeners, usually as shown by sales of records.
- hop garden — a field of hops
- hydrograph — a graph of the water level or rate of flow of a body of water as a function of time, showing the seasonal change.
- hydropathy — the curing of disease by the internal and external use of water.
- hydrophane — a partly translucent variety of opal, which becomes more translucent or transparent when immersed in water.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hypermedia — hypertext
- hypnodrama — the acting out of a traumatic experience, under hypnosis, by a person undergoing psychotherapy.
- hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypodorian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the ascending diatonic scale from A to A
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- idiography — The study of individuals.
- jamshedpur — a city in SE Jharkhand, in NE India.
- lampholder — a fixture for an electric light bulb
- leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- nephridial — Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
- orphanhood — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- packthread — a strong thread or twine for sewing or tying up packages.
- padma shri — (in India) an award for distinguished service in any field
- panhandler — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
- parenthood — the state, position, or relation of a parent.
- 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
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- permadeath — (in a game, often a video game) the permanent death of a defeated character, after which the player of the game cannot continue with the same character.
- petrolhead — a person who is excessively interested in or is devoted to travelling by car
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- photodrama — photoplay.
- pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
- polyhedral — of, relating to, or having the shape of a polyhedron.
- pranidhana — (in Mahayana Buddhism) the resolution not to enter nirvana until all beings are ready to enter.
- preholiday — relating to the period before a holiday
- punch card — punched card
- 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.
- radiograph — Also called shadowgraph. a photographic image produced by the action of x-rays or nuclear radiation.