10-letter words containing h, i, e, r, a
- half-quire — 12 uniform sheets of paper.
- hammerings — a series of punishments or beatings
- hand-drier — an electrical appliance, usually found in public toilets, that dries a person's hands through the expulsion of hot air
- hanoverian — of or relating to the former ruling house of Hanover.
- hansardize — to prove that (a member of parliament) has changed his views from those quoted in Hansard
- harbingers — Plural form of harbinger.
- harborside — bordering a harbor.
- hard cider — the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- hard drive — hard disk drive
- hard lines — bad luck
- hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hard-liner — a person who adheres rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan.
- hard-wired — Computers. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- hardliners — Plural form of hardliner.
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- harlequins — Plural form of harlequin.
- harmonised — Simple past tense and past participle of harmonise.
- harmoniser — (British spelling) alternative spelling of harmonizer.
- harmonises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harmonise.
- harmonized — Add notes to (a melody) to produce harmony.
- harmonizer — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harmonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harmonize.
- harnessing — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
- haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
- harvesting — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- hatcheries — Plural form of hatchery.
- hate crime — a crime, usually violent, motivated by prejudice or intolerance toward an individual’s national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
- hateration — (African American Vernacular English, slang) Hatred, hostility, animus.
- 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-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.
- headliners — Plural form of headliner.
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- 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.
- hearkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- hearselike — Resembling or characteristic of a hearse.
- heartening — to give courage or confidence to; cheer.
- hearthside — fireside.
- heartiness — warm-hearted; affectionate; cordial; jovial: a hearty welcome.
- heavy rain — torrential rainfall
- hebraistic — of or relating to Hebraists or characterized by Hebraism or Hebraisms.
- heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- heliolatry — worship of the sun.
- hellraiser — a person who behaves in a rowdy, riotous manner, especially habitually.
- hematocrit — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- hemicrania — pain in one side of the head.
- hemihedral — (of a crystal) having only half the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.