10-letter words containing h, e, w, s
- foreshadow — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foreshowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshow.
- foreshower — One who predicts.
- freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
- freewheels — Plural form of freewheel.
- freshwater — of or living in water that is fresh or not salt: freshwater fish.
- freshwoman — A female first-year student at a university, college, or high school.
- gearwheels — Plural form of gearwheel.
- ghost-weed — snow-on-the-mountain.
- ghostwrite — (intransitive) To write under the name of another (especially literary works).
- guess what — used to announce news
- hagerstown — a city in NW Maryland.
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hawfinches — Plural form of hawfinch.
- hawk's-eye — a dark-blue chatoyant quartz formed by the silicification of crocidolite, used for ornamental purposes. Compare tiger's-eye (def 1).
- hawseholes — Plural form of hawsehole.
- hawsepipes — Plural form of hawsepipe.
- heads down — [Sun] Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also hack mode and larval stage, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers.
- headwaters — The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- healthwise — With regard to health.
- heartworms — Plural form of heartworm.
- helmswoman — The female equivalent of a helmsman.
- helmswomen — Plural form of helmswoman.
- herdswoman — The female equivalent of a herdsman.
- herdswomen — Plural form of herdswoman.
- herskowitz — Melville (Jean) 1895–1963, American anthropologist.
- hollow sea — an ocean wave formation in which the rise from troughs to crests is very steep.
- hollowness — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- homeowners — Plural form of homeowner.
- horse show — a competitive display of the capabilities and qualities of horses and their riders or handlers, usually held as an annual event.
- horse-whip — a whip for controlling horses.
- horsedrawn — Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.
- horsepower — a foot-pound-second unit of power, equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second, or 745.7 watts.
- horsewhips — Plural form of horsewhip.
- horsewoman — a woman who rides on horseback.
- horsewomen — Plural form of horsewoman.
- house crow — a black and gray crow, Corvus splendens, of India.
- house wine — a wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- house wren — a common American wren, Troglodytes aedon, that nests around houses.
- housewares — (North America) Domestic utensils, especially for the kitchen.
- housewifey — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a housewife.
- housewives — Plural form of housewife.
- howsomever — in whatever manner, although
- hume's law — the philosophical doctrine that an evaluative statement cannot be derived from purely factual premises, often formulated as: one can't derive an "ought" from an "is"
- huntswomen — Plural form of huntswoman.
- ill-wisher — a person who wishes misfortune to another.
- irish stew — a stew usually made of mutton, lamb, or beef, with potatoes, onions, etc.
- jew's harp — (sometimes lowercase) a small, simple musical instrument consisting of a lyre-shaped metal frame containing a metal tongue, which is plucked while the frame is held in the teeth, the vibrations causing twanging tones.
- jew's-harp — (sometimes lowercase) a small, simple musical instrument consisting of a lyre-shaped metal frame containing a metal tongue, which is plucked while the frame is held in the teeth, the vibrations causing twanging tones.
- jewishness — the state or quality of being Jewish.