10-letter words containing h, o, n, r, i
- harmonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harmonize.
- harpooning — Present participle of harpoon.
- harrington — James. 1611–77, English republican and writer. He described his ideal form of government in Oceana (1656)
- hateration — (African American Vernacular English, slang) Hatred, hostility, animus.
- helleborin — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 28 H 36 O 6 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a purgative.
- hemihedron — a substance of hemihedral type
- hemikaryon — a haploid nucleus.
- hemipteron — Alternative form of hemipteran.
- herakleion — a seaport in N Crete.
- herniation — to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.
- herniotomy — correction of a hernia by a cutting procedure.
- heroicness — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- heronsbill — any of a genus (Erodium) of plants of the geranium family, with fine leaves and yellow, white, or reddish flowers
- hesperinos — vesper (def 3).
- hibernator — Something that hibernates.
- hieromancy — divination through studying objects offered in sacrifice
- hieronymic — of or relating to St. Jerome.
- hieronymus — Eusebius [yoo-see-bee-uh s] /yuˈsi bi əs/ (Show IPA), Jerome, Saint.
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hierophany — A physical manifestation of the holy or sacred, serving as a spiritual eidolon for emulation or worship.
- hindermost — Hindmost.
- hintermost — Most remote; closest to the outer edge or back.
- hippocrene — a spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration.
- hirudinoid — of, relating to, or resembling a leech.
- hirudinous — leech-like
- historians — Plural form of historian.
- histrionic — of or relating to actors or acting.
- hogarthian — William, 1697–1764, English painter and engraver.
- holstering — Present participle of holster.
- homorganic — (of two or more speech sounds) having the same place of articulation, as p, b, and m, which are all bilabial.
- honoraries — Plural form of honorary.
- honorarily — given for honor only, without the usual requirements, duties, privileges, emoluments, etc.: The university presented the new governor with an honorary degree.
- honorarium — a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.
- honorifics — Plural form of honorific.
- honorius i — died a.d. 638, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 625–638.
- hoodwinker — One who hoodwinks.
- hoofprints — Plural form of hoofprint.
- horizontal — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
- hormogonia — a portion of filament in blue-green algae that becomes detached and reproduces by cell division.
- horn chair — a chair, especially of the late 19th-century U.S., having a frame made from steer, elk, buffalo, or other animal horns.
- hornrimmed — Alternative form of horn-rimmed.
- horridness — The quality of being horrid.
- horrifying — to cause to feel horror; strike with horror: The accident horrified us all.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- 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.
- 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.
- humaniform — Like a human or that of a human in form, seeming, or appearance.
- hyaluronic — Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives.
- hydrogenic — (chemistry) hydrogen-like.