10-letter words containing h, i, e, r, a
- hildegarde — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”.
- hillwalker — a person who goes hillwalking
- hinderance — Archaic spelling of hindrance.
- hinderland — a type of linen cloth from Europe
- hinderlans — the buttocks
- hindrances — Plural form of hindrance.
- 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.
- hired hand — a hired laborer, especially on a farm or ranch; farm hand or ranch hand.
- hirudinean — any annelid worm of the class Hirudinea, comprising the leeches.
- 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.
- honoraries — Plural form of honorary.
- 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.
- hurricanes — Plural form of hurricane.
- 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.
- hydrazides — Plural form of hydrazide.
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hyperaemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hyperalgia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hyperaphia — abnormal sensitivity to touch.
- hyperbaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity greater than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hypobaric.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypermania — excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze: The country has a mania for soccer.
- hypermanic — pertaining to or affected by mania.
- hypermedia — hypertext
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- 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.
- ice anchor — a large, hooklike device for setting in ice to anchor a vessel or to provide a hold for a hawser in warping it along.
- ice hammer — a form of ice axe in which one part of the head is shaped like a hammer
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- in feather — feathered
- in harness — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
- 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.
- increaseth — Archaic third-person singular form of increase.
- inhabiters — Plural form of inhabiter.
- inhearsing — Present participle of inhearse.
- interchain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- interfaith — of, operating, or occurring between persons belonging to different religions: an interfaith service.