10-letter words containing h, o, t, a
- 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
- hereabouts — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- heriotable — liable for the payment of a heriot
- 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.
- hesitatory — Hesitating.
- heteroatom — an atom other than carbon in the ring structure of a heterocyclic compound.
- heterogamy — heterogamous state.
- hibernator — Something that hibernates.
- hierolatry — worship or veneration of saints or sacred things.
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- histoblast — a cell or group of cells capable of forming tissue.
- histograms — Plural form of histogram.
- historians — Plural form of historian.
- historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. 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.
- hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- holocausts — Plural form of holocaust.
- holophotal — reflecting and redirecting all or a large amount of the light from a source
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- home match — a match played on a team's home ground
- home plate — the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.
- home stand — a series of consecutive sports events, as baseball games, played in a team's own stadium.
- home state — the state where a person comes from, or where they live
- homeopathy — the method of treating disease by drugs, given in minute doses, that would produce in a healthy person symptoms similar to those of the disease (opposed to allopathy).
- homesteads — Plural form of homestead.
- homoblasty — the state of being homoblastic
- homoeopath — Alternative spelling of homeopath.
- homogenate — a mixture that has been homogenized.
- homografts — Plural form of homograft.
- homologate — to approve; confirm or ratify.
- homopteran — homopterous.
- homotaxial — a similarity of arrangement, as of geologic strata or fossil assemblages that have the same relative position but are not necessarily contemporaneous.
- 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.
- horsetails — Plural form of horsetail.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- 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.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- hot potato — Informal. a situation or issue that is difficult, unpleasant, or risky to deal with.
- hot-headed — hot or fiery in spirit or temper; impetuous; rash: Hotheaded people shouldn't drive cars.
- hot-walker — a person whose job is walking racehorses after races, workouts, etc. to allow them to cool off gradually
- hotel rack — rack6 (def 2).