10-letter words containing h, e, a, d
- 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.
- hired hand — a hired laborer, especially on a farm or ranch; farm hand or ranch hand.
- hirudinean — any annelid worm of the class Hirudinea, comprising the leeches.
- 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.
- hog badger — a SE Asian badger, Arctonyx collaris, with a piglike mobile snout
- hog-backed — cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.
- hol hamoed — the period between the first and last two days of Passover or Sukkoth, consisting of four days during Passover and five days during Sukkoth and having less than full festival status.
- 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.
- holohedral — (of a crystal) having all the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- home brand — an item packaged and marketed under the brand name of a particular retailer, usually a large supermarket chain, rather than that of the manufacturer
- home guard — a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.
- home stand — a series of consecutive sports events, as baseball games, played in a team's own stadium.
- home-baked — baked at home; home-made
- homesteads — Plural form of homestead.
- hoover dam — official name of Boulder Dam.
- hop garden — a field of hops
- horsedrawn — Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.
- hot-headed — hot or fiery in spirit or temper; impetuous; rash: Hotheaded people shouldn't drive cars.
- housemaids — Plural form of housemaid.
- hoverboard — (science fiction) A levitating board that can be ridden in the manner of a surfboard or skateboard.
- humiliated — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- husbandage — the fees and commissions of a ship's manager.
- husbandmen — Plural form of husbandman.
- hyalinised — to become hyaline.
- hyalinized — to become hyaline.
- hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
- hydathodes — Plural form of hydathode.
- 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.
- hydragogue — causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
- hydrangeas — Plural form of hydrangea.
- 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.
- hydrazides — Plural form of hydrazide.
- hydrazoate — a salt of hydrazoic acid; azide.
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hydrolases — Plural form of hydrolase.
- 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.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hypermedia — hypertext
- hyphenated — of or relating to something of distinct form or origin that has been joined; connected by a hyphen.
- hypnopedia — sleep learning.
- hypoadenia — a deficiency of glandular activity.
- hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- ideographs — an ideogram.