10-letter words containing h, o, n, e, s
- horsedrawn — Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.
- horsewoman — a woman who rides on horseback.
- horsewomen — Plural form of horsewoman.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- hostelling — Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
- hostessing — a woman who receives and entertains guests in her own home or elsewhere.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- 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.
- house-hunt — to search for a house to buy or rent
- housebound — restricted to the house, as by bad weather or illness.
- houseclean — to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
- housefront — the façade of a house
- houselling — administration of the Eucharist
- housephone — a telephone, used for making calls within a hotel or apartment house, that does not have a direct line to an exchange and whose calls are routed through the building's switchboard.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- huddleston — (Ernest Urban) Trevor, 1913–1998, English Anglican archbishop and antiapartheid activist in Africa.
- huntswomen — Plural form of huntswoman.
- hush money — a bribe to keep someone silent about something, especially to keep the receiver from exposing a scandal.
- hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
- hypnotised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypnotise.
- hypnotises — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hypnotize.
- hypogenous — growing beneath, or on the undersurface, as fungi on leaves.
- hypomnesia — Deficiency of the memory.
- hypotenuse — the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
- idiophones — Plural form of idiophone.
- incohesive — Not cohesive.
- infosphere — electronic communication and networking as a whole
- ingenhousz — Jan (jɑn). 1730–99, Dutch plant physiologist and physician, who discovered photosynthesis
- inheritors — a person who inherits; heir.
- 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.
- iron horse — a locomotive.
- isohalines — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- john jakes — John, born 1932, U.S. novelist.
- johnsonese — a literary style characterized by rhetorically balanced, often pompous phraseology and an excessively Latinate vocabulary: so called from the style of writing practiced by Samuel Johnson.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- korn shell — (ksh) A command interpreter for Unix.
- lederhosen — Leather shorts with H-shaped suspenders, traditionally worn by men in Alpine regions such as Bavaria.
- lemon fish — the cobia.
- lich stone — a large stone on which to rest a coffin momentarily at the entrance to a cemetery.
- long horse — vaulting horse.
- long house — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
- longhouses — Plural form of longhouse.
- loucheness — The quality of being louche, shifty or disreputable.
- lunchboxes — Plural form of lunchbox.