10-letter words containing h, o, t, a, n
- heptathlon — an athletic contest for women comprising seven different track-and-field events and won by the contestant amassing the highest total score.
- heptatonic — (of a musical scale) comprising seven notes
- herniation — to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.
- hesitation — the act of hesitating; a delay due to uncertainty of mind or fear: His hesitation cost him the championship.
- hibernator — Something that hibernates.
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- historians — Plural form of historian.
- hog peanut — a twining plant, Amphicarpaea bracteata, of the legume family, bearing pods that ripen in or on the ground.
- hogarthian — William, 1697–1764, English painter and engraver.
- home stand — a series of consecutive sports events, as baseball games, played in a team's own stadium.
- homogenate — a mixture that has been homogenized.
- homopteran — homopterous.
- honeyeater — An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar.
- hootenanny — a social gathering or informal concert featuring folk singing and, sometimes, dancing.
- horizontal — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- housatonic — a river flowing S from NW Massachusetts through SW Connecticut to Long Island Sound near Stratford, Connecticut. 148 miles (240 km) long.
- 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.
- houstonian — a native or resident of Houston, Texas.
- houstonias — Plural form of houstonia.
- 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.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- huntswoman — Feminine form of huntsman.
- hycanthone — A particular schistosomicide, a metabolite of lucanthone.
- hypaethron — a part of a building or court which is open to the sky
- hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hyphenator — One who, or that which, hyphenates.
- hypothenar — the fleshly prominence on the palm at the base of the little finger.
- in cahoots — go cahoots, to share equally; become partners: They went cahoots in the establishment of the store. Also, go in cahoot with, go in cahoots.
- inchoately — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- inchoation — a beginning; origin.
- inchoative — inceptive.
- infanthood — Infancy.
- inhabitors — Plural form of inhabitor.
- inhalation — an act or instance of inhaling.
- inhalators — Plural form of inhalator.
- inhumation — to bury; inter.
- jacobethan — noting or pertaining to the architecture of England at the beginning of the 17th century.
- john cabot — John (Giovanni Caboto) c1450–98? Italian navigator in the service of England: discoverer of North American mainland 1497.
- klootchman — a North American Indian woman
- knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.
- kronshtadt — city & naval fortress on an island in NW Russia, on the Gulf of Finland: pop. 45,000
- lanthanoid — (inorganic chemistry) lanthanide.
- latch onto — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- lithophane — a transparency made of thin porcelain or bone china having an intaglio design.
- loan-shift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- lucanthone — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.