10-letter words containing h, e, t, a, r, i
- headstripe — A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
- headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- heartening — to give courage or confidence to; cheer.
- hearthside — fireside.
- heartiness — warm-hearted; affectionate; cordial; jovial: a hearty welcome.
- hebraistic — of or relating to Hebraists or characterized by Hebraism or Hebraisms.
- heliolatry — worship of the sun.
- hematocrit — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- hemipteral — of or relating to a hemipterous insect
- hemipteran — hemipterous.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- heraclitus — ("the Obscure") c540–c470 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- herbalists — Plural form of herbalist.
- hereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- hereticate — to declare as heresy or as a heretic
- heriotable — liable for the payment of a heriot
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- hermetical — made airtight by fusion or sealing.
- hermitages — Plural form of hermitage.
- hermitical — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- herniation — to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.
- hesitatory — Hesitating.
- hibernated — Simple past tense and past participle of hibernate.
- hibernates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hibernate.
- hibernator — Something that hibernates.
- hieratical — Also, hieratical. of or relating to priests or the priesthood; sacerdotal; priestly.
- hierolatry — worship or veneration of saints or sacred things.
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- high water — water at its greatest elevation, as in a river.
- hilarities — cheerfulness; merriment; mirthfulness.
- 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.
- horsetails — Plural form of horsetail.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- hovertrain — an experimental high-speed train that rides on a cushion of air over a concrete guide track in the shape of an inverted T and is propelled by one or more propellers or jet engines.
- 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.
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hypometria — Dysmetria in which the patient tends to undershoot the intended target.
- hysterical — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- in feather — feathered
- in the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- in the raw — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- inbreathed — Simple past tense and past participle of inbreathe.