10-letter words containing h, a, r, d, t
- goldthread — a white-flowered plant, Coptis trifolia, of the buttercup family, having a slender, yellow root that is sometimes used as a tonic.
- graphitoid — resembling graphite
- had better — that which has greater excellence or is preferable or wiser: the better of two choices.
- had rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.
- hadhramaut — a region along the S coast of the Arabian peninsula, in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
- hand cruft — (jargon) (After "hand craft") To write something by hand that would be better done automatically, e.g. writing assembly language instead of using a compiler (see hand hacking).
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- handcrafts — Plural form of handcraft.
- handicraft — manual skill.
- handprints — Plural form of handprint.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- hard at it — working hard
- hard court — a tennis court having a concrete or asphalt surface.
- hard light — directed light, especially light whose beams are relatively parallel, producing distinct shadows and a harsher modeling effect on the subject.
- hard paste — true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
- hard right — You use hard right to describe those members of a right wing political group or party who have the most extreme political beliefs.
- hard stuff — strongly addictive drugs.
- hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hard water — water that contains magnesium, calcium, or iron salts and therefore forms a soap lather with difficulty.
- hard wheat — a wheat, as durum wheat, characterized by flinty, dark-colored kernels that yield a flour used in making bread, macaroni, etc.
- hard-asset — denoting an asset with intrinsic value: diamonds and other hard-asset commodities.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- head right — Law. a beneficial interest for each member of an Indian tribe in the tribal trust fund accruing from the lease of tribal oil, gas, and mineral rights, the sale of tribal lands, etc.
- head start — an advantage given or acquired in any competition, endeavor, etc., as allowing one or more competitors in a race to start before the others.
- head-first — If you move head-first in a particular direction, your head is the part of your body that is furthest forward as you are moving.
- head-right — Law. a beneficial interest for each member of an Indian tribe in the tribal trust fund accruing from the lease of tribal oil, gas, and mineral rights, the sale of tribal lands, etc.
- headhunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- headmaster — the person in charge of a private school.
- headstream — a stream that is the source, or one of the sources, of a river.
- headstripe — A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
- headstrong — determined to have one's own way; willful; stubborn; obstinate: a headstrong young man.
- headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headwaters — The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- hearthside — fireside.
- heartlands — Plural form of heartland.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- hereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- hibernated — Simple past tense and past participle of hibernate.
- hinterland — Often, hinterlands. the remote or less developed parts of a country; back country: The hinterlands are usually much more picturesque than the urban areas.
- hit parade — a listing or category of popular songs ranked according to their popularity with listeners, usually as shown by sales of records.
- hitherward — hither.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- 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.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
- hydrastine — an alkaloid, C 21 H 21 NO 6 , that is extracted from the roots of goldenseal and forms prismatic crystals: used as an astringent and to inhibit uterine bleeding.
- hydrazoate — a salt of hydrazoic acid; azide.
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hydropathy — the curing of disease by the internal and external use of water.
- hydrostats — Plural form of hydrostat.