10-letter words containing h, i, r, o, s
- horserider — Someone who rides a horse.
- horsetails — Plural form of horsetail.
- horsethief — Alternative spelling of horse thief.
- horsewhips — Plural form of horsewhip.
- 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.
- hostelries — Plural form of hostelry.
- hot spring — a thermal spring having water warmer than 98°F (37°C): the water is usually heated by emanation from or passage near hot or molten rock.
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- hoverflies — Plural form of hoverfly.
- hrotsvitha — c935–c1000, German nun, poet, and dramatist.
- humoralism — a theory of the composition and workings of the human body, based on the idea that it was filled with four basic substances, or humours, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.
- humoralist — a person who believes in humoralism
- humoristic — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- hydrofoils — Plural form of hydrofoil.
- hydrolysis — chemical decomposition in which a compound is split into other compounds by reacting with water.
- hydrosolic — of or relating to a hydrosol
- hydrotaxis — oriented movement toward or away from water.
- hydroxides — Plural form of hydroxide.
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
- hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
- hypervisor — (computing) A software and/or firmware system that provides a virtual machine and allows it to operate directly on underlying hardware (instead of via emulation), but within specified constraints.
- hypocorism — a pet name.
- hypocrisie — Obsolete form of hypocrisy.
- hypocrites — Plural form of hypocrite.
- hypodermis — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- impoverish — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- infosphere — electronic communication and networking as a whole
- inhabitors — Plural form of inhabitor.
- inhalators — Plural form of inhalator.
- inheritors — a person who inherits; heir.
- inhibitors — Plural form of inhibitor.
- inshore of — nearer than (something else) to the shore
- intershock — To shock mutually, as if by collision.
- ionophores — Plural form of ionophore.
- ionosphere — the region of the earth's atmosphere between the stratosphere and the exosphere, consisting of several ionized layers and extending from about 50 to 250 miles (80 to 400 km) above the surface of the earth.
- irish boat — a small fishing boat used in the Boston area in the late 19th century, derived from an Irish model and having a cutter rig.
- irish lord — any of several marine sculpins of the genus Hemilepidotus, found from Alaska to northern California.
- irish moss — a purplish-brown, cartilaginous seaweed, Chondrus crispus, of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America.
- irishwoman — a woman born in Ireland or of Irish ancestry.
- iron horse — a locomotive.
- isochronal — equal or uniform in time.
- isochronon — A clock designed to keep very accurate time.
- isochroous — having the same color throughout.
- isographic — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- isomorphic — Biology. different in ancestry, but having the same form or appearance.