10-letter words containing h, a, t, b, o
- cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
- coach bolt — a large round-headed bolt used esp to secure wood to masonry
- cohabitant — a person living together with another or others
- cohabitate — cohabit.
- cohabiting — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohobating — Present participle of cohobate.
- cohobation — (dated, chemistry) The boiling of a material in a liquid with the repeated return of the distillate.
- cowboy hat — a wide-brimmed hat as worn by cowboys
- crash boat — a small, fast boat used in rescue operations, especially for airplane crashes.
- death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- demothball — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- ethambutol — a compound used in the treatment of tuberculosis
- fathomable — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- ghost crab — a whitish crab, Ocypode albicans, of sandy beaches from the eastern coast of the U.S. to Brazil.
- habilatory — relating to clothes or dressed in clothes
- habitation — a place of residence; dwelling; abode.
- halobionts — Plural form of halobiont.
- halobiotic — relating to habitation in the sea
- hang about — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- haplobiont — an organism, esp a plant, that exists in either the diploid form or the haploid form (but never alternates between these forms) during its life cycle
- hatch boat — a small fishing vessel having covered wells for holding the catch.
- have to be — to be unquestionably or without doubt
- heartbroke — heartbroken
- heartthrob — a rapid beat or pulsation of the heart.
- hereabouts — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- heriotable — liable for the payment of a heriot
- hibernator — Something that hibernates.
- histoblast — a cell or group of cells capable of forming tissue.
- homoblasty — the state of being homoblastic
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- houseboats — Plural form of houseboat.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.
- hypoblasts — Plural form of hypoblast.
- inhabitors — Plural form of inhabitor.
- irish boat — a small fishing boat used in the Boston area in the late 19th century, derived from an Irish model and having a cutter rig.
- jacobethan — noting or pertaining to the architecture of England at the beginning of the 17th century.
- john cabot — John (Giovanni Caboto) c1450–98? Italian navigator in the service of England: discoverer of North American mainland 1497.
- knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.
- kota bharu — a state in Malaysia, on the central Malay Peninsula. 5750 sq. mi. (14,893 sq. km). Capital: Kota Bharu.
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- 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.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.
- methiocarb — a crystalline compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 2 S, used as a nonsystemic insecticide and miticide.
- mothballed — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- notch baby — a person who was born in the U.S. between 1917 and 1921 and as a retiree received lower cost-of-living increases in Social Security than others after Congress readjusted Social Security benefits in 1977.