10-letter words containing h, e, a, d
- greyheaded — having grey hair
- guardhouse — a building used for housing military personnel on guard duty.
- habituated — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
- haciendado — hacendado.
- hacked off — (jargon) (Analogous to "pissed off") Said of system administrators who have become annoyed, upset, or touchy owing to suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimised by crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly criminal activities. For example, having unreadable files in your home directory called "worm", "lockpick", or "goroot" would probably be an effective (as well as impressively obvious and stupid) way to get your sysadmin hacked off at you.
- 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.
- had sooner — would rather; would prefer to
- hag-ridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- hair slide — a hinged clip with a tortoiseshell, bone, or similar back, used to fasten the hair
- halberdier — a soldier, guard, or attendant armed with a halberd.
- half-arsed — incompetent; inept; badly organized
- half-assed — insufficient or haphazard; not fully planned or developed.
- half-baked — insufficiently cooked.
- half-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to the offspring of parents of different racial origin, especially the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European descent.
- half-dazed — partly dazed or confused
- half-dozen — one half of a dozen; six.
- half-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
- hallandale — a city in SE Florida.
- hallmarked — Simple past tense and past participle of hallmark.
- ham-fisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- ham-handed — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hammerhead — the part of a hammer designed for striking.
- hand brake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- hand cream — a cream that you put on your hands to make them feel softer and smoother
- hand level — a leveling instrument held in the hand and used for approximate work at short distances.
- hand mower — a lawn mower that is pushed by hand (distinguished from power mower).
- 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 towel — small towel for drying the hands
- hand-drier — an electrical appliance, usually found in public toilets, that dries a person's hands through the expulsion of hot air
- hand-me-up — something, such as an item of electronic equipment, that is passed from a younger to an older member of a family
- hand-piece — handheld, power-operated shears used by a shearer
- hand-spike — a bar used as a lever.
- hand-woven — woven by hand rather than by machine
- handballer — A handball player.
- handbasket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbrakes — Plural form of handbrake.
- handcuffed — Simple past tense and past participle of handcuff.
- handedness — a tendency to use one hand more than the other.
- handfasted — Simple past tense and past participle of handfast.
- handlanger — an unskilled assistant to a tradesman
- handleable — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- 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.
- handleless — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- handloomed — handwoven.
- handmaiden — something that is necessarily subservient or subordinate to another: Ceremony is but the handmaid of worship.
- handphones — Plural form of handphone.