10-letter words containing h, i, e, r, a
- fahrenheit — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
- faintheart — person who lacks courage; coward.
- fair shake — an equitable opportunity or treatment: The judges promised that every entrant in the contest would get a fair shake.
- faith cure — a method of attempting to cure disease by prayer and religious faith.
- farsighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fashioners — Plural form of fashioner.
- fatherlike — Having the qualities of a father.
- fathership — The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
- feathering — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- figurehead — a person who is head of a group, company, etc., in title but actually has no real authority or responsibility: Most modern kings and queens are figureheads.
- flapperish — in the style of a flapper
- frameshift — the addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.
- franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
- franchisee — a person or company to whom a franchise is granted.
- franchiser — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- franchises — Plural form of franchise.
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- freightage — the transportation of goods.
- freshmanic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a freshman: freshmanic enthusiasm.
- fringehead — any fish of the genus Neoclinus, characterized by a row of fleshy processes on the head, as N. blanchardi (sarcastic fringehead) of California coastal waters.
- garishness — crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
- garnisheed — Simple past tense and past participle of garnishee.
- garnishees — Plural form of garnishee.
- gatherings — Plural form of gathering.
- gaucheries — Plural form of gaucherie.
- gaultheria — (botany) Any of the genus Gaultheria of evergreen ericaceous shrubs.
- gearshifts — Plural form of gearshift.
- geographic — of or relating to geography.
- go haywire — to behave or perform erratically
- graphemics — the study of writing systems and of their relation to speech.
- graphitize — to convert into graphite.
- gynarchies — Plural form of gynarchy.
- haematuria — Alternative spelling of hematuria.
- hag-ridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- hair cream — a cosmetic preparation used to improve the condition of, and/or to style the hair
- hair sheep — any variety of sheep growing hair instead of wool, yielding hides with a finer and tougher grain than those of wool sheep
- hair slide — a hinged clip with a tortoiseshell, bone, or similar back, used to fasten the hair
- hair space — the thinnest metal space used to separate words, symbols, etc.
- hair style — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- hair weave — the process of hairweaving.
- haircutter — A barber.
- hairpieces — Plural form of hairpiece.
- hairstreak — any small, dark butterfly of the family Lycaenidae, having hairlike tails on the hind wings.
- hairstyles — Plural form of hairstyle.
- hairy tare — Vicia hirsuta, a vetch plant of Eurasia and N Africa
- halberdier — a soldier, guard, or attendant armed with a halberd.
- half tiger — a five-rand coin
- half-liter — a unit of capacity equal to 500 cubic centimeters.
- half-miler — a half-mile race.
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost