10-letter words containing h, a, r, d, s
- flashboard — a board, or one of a series of boards, as on a milldam, used to increase the depth of the impounded water.
- flashcards — Plural form of flashcard.
- flushboard — Alternative form of flashboard.
- foreshadow — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
- garnisheed — Simple past tense and past participle of garnishee.
- gas holder — A gas holder is a large, low-pressure container for gas.
- gasholders — Plural form of gasholder.
- godfathers — Plural form of godfather.
- greenheads — Plural form of greenhead.
- guardhouse — a building used for housing military personnel on guard duty.
- had sooner — would rather; would prefer to
- hadrosaurs — Plural form of hadrosaur.
- hair slide — a hinged clip with a tortoiseshell, bone, or similar back, used to fasten the hair
- half-arsed — incompetent; inept; badly organized
- hamadryads — Plural form of hamadryad.
- hand press — a printing press requiring hand operation.
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hand-spray — an attachment to a shower, sink unit, etc, that is not fixed in place but can instead be moved in order to aid washing
- handbrakes — Plural form of handbrake.
- handcrafts — Plural form of handcraft.
- handlebars — Usually, handlebars. the curved steering bar of a bicycle, motorcycle, etc., placed in front of the rider and gripped by the hands. handlebar moustache.
- handprints — Plural form of handprint.
- hands-free — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- 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.
- handshaker — a person who is or is required to be overtly or ostentatiously friendly: Politicians are often incurable handshakers.
- handspring — an acrobatic feat in which one starts from a standing position and wheels the body forward or backward in a complete circle, landing first on the hands and then on the feet, without contact by the rest of the body.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- hansardize — to prove that (a member of parliament) has changed his views from those quoted in Hansard
- harassedly — in a harassed manner
- harborside — bordering a harbor.
- hard crash — (programming) When a program stops running completely and unexpectedly, often due to external events, e.g. the CPU overheating or an unrecoverable memory error. See also disk crash.
- hard goods — durable goods
- hard grass — any of several types of coarse grass
- hard lines — bad luck
- hard paste — true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
- hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
- hard stuff — strongly addictive drugs.
- hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hard yards — a great deal of effort or hard work, esp in playing a sport
- hard-assed — tough and uncompromising
- hard-asset — denoting an asset with intrinsic value: diamonds and other hard-asset commodities.
- hard-nosed — hardheaded or tough; unsentimentally practical: a hard-nosed labor leader.
- hard-shell — Also, hard-shelled. having a firm, hard shell, as a crab in its normal state; not having recently molted.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- hardliners — Plural form of hardliner.
- hardnesses — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
- harmonised — Simple past tense and past participle of harmonise.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.