10-letter words containing h, o, u, r, e
- our father — Lord's Prayer.
- outbreathe — to breathe out
- outmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of outmarch.
- outreached — Simple past tense and past participle of outreach.
- outreaches — Plural form of outreach.
- outstretch — to stretch forth; extend: to outstretch one's hand in welcome.
- overbought — marked by prices considered unjustifiably high because of extensive buying: The stock market is overbought now. Compare oversold.
- overhonour — to honour too highly
- overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- overtaught — taught to excess
- overthrust — a thrust fault with a low dip and a large slip.
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- phosphuret — a phosphate
- powerhouse — Electricity. a generating station.
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- promethium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element. Symbol: Pm; atomic number: 61.
- quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
- rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
- rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
- roche alum — an alumlike substance derived from alunite.
- rough-hewn — to hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
- roughhouse — rough, disorderly playing, especially indoors.
- roughrider — a person who breaks horses to the saddle.
- roundheels — a prostitute.
- roundhouse — a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
- routemarch — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- rush order — an order for goods required urgently
- russophile — a person who is friendly to, admires, or prefers Russia or Russian customs, institutions, etc.
- russophobe — a person who hates or fears Russia or the Russians.
- ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
- rutherford — Daniel, 1749–1819, Scottish physician and chemist: discoverer of nitrogen.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- scruncheon — (in Newfoundland) a small crisp piece of fried pork fat
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- search out — hunt for, seek
- semichorus — half of a chorus; part of a chorus to be sung by a portion but not all of the singers
- short fuse — a quick temper: A person with a short fuse has to be handled diplomatically.
- shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
- shrewmouse — a shrew.
- skeuomorph — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- southerner — a native or inhabitant of the south.
- southernly — southerly.
- storehouse — a building in which things are stored.
- stoutherie — theft
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- stretchout — a deliberate extension of time for meeting a production quota.
- sugarhouse — a shed or other building where maple syrup or maple sugar is made.
- supermacho — extremely macho
- superphone — a telephone with a high-speed processor that can perform many of the functions of a computer