10-letter words containing h, e, r, d, t
- 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.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- hard paste — true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
- 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.
- heredities — Plural form of heredity.
- hereditist — hereditarian.
- heterodont — (of most mammals) having teeth of different types
- heterodoxy — heterodox state or quality.
- heterodyne — noting or pertaining to a method of changing the frequency of an incoming radio signal by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals.
- hibernated — Simple past tense and past participle of hibernate.
- hindermost — Hindmost.
- 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.
- hipsterdom — The state of being a hipster.
- hit parade — a listing or category of popular songs ranked according to their popularity with listeners, usually as shown by sales of records.
- hitherside — the nearer side of something or someone
- 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.
- hooktender — (in lumbering) the supervisor of a rigging crew.
- hot dogger — a frankfurter.
- hot rodder — a driver or builder of hot rods.
- huckstered — Simple past tense and past participle of huckster.
- hundredths — Plural form of hundredth.
- 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.
- hydrolytes — a substance subjected to hydrolysis.
- hydrometer — an instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid, commonly consisting of a graduated tube weighted to float upright in the liquid whose specific gravity is being measured.
- hydrometry — (physics) The branch of hydrostatics dealing with the measurement of specific gravity using hydrometers.