10-letter words containing h, u, a, s, t
- cut a dash — If you say that someone cuts a dash, you mean that they have an attractively stylish appearance or a rather bold manner.
- cutthroats — Plural form of cutthroat.
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- distraught — distracted; deeply agitated.
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- dust-bathe — (of a bird) to squat in dusty soil and fluff dust through the plumage: probably performed to combat ectoparasites.
- enthusiasm — Intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
- enthusiast — A person who is highly interested in a particular activity or subject.
- epicanthus — (anatomy) A skin fold of the upper eyelid, typical to East Asians.
- erymanthus — Mountmountain in the NW Peloponnesus, Greece: 7,297 ft (2,224 m): in Greek mythology, haunt of a savage boar captured by Hercules
- eustachian — Alternative form of Eustachian.
- euthanased — Simple past tense and past participle of euthanase.
- euthanasia — The painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma. The practice is illegal in most countries.
- euthanasic — Of, or pertaining to euthanasia.
- euthanised — Simple past tense and past participle of euthanise.
- euthanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of euthanize.
- euthenasia — Misspelling of euthanasia.
- eutherians — Plural form of eutherian.
- exhausting — Making one feel very tired; very tiring.
- exhaustion — A state of extreme physical or mental fatigue.
- exhaustive — Examining, including, or considering all elements or aspects; fully comprehensive.
- flash tube — a gaseous discharge tube designed to emit extremely short bursts of very intense light
- flash unit — an electronic flash and its power supply in a compact unit.
- gatehouses — Plural form of gatehouse.
- ghastfully — in a ghastful manner
- goalmouths — Plural form of goalmouth.
- guess what — used to announce news
- guitarfish — any sharklike ray of the family Rhinobatidae, of warm seas, resembling a guitar in shape.
- habituates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of habituate.
- half-stuff — (in a manufacturing process) any material half formed, especially partly prepared pulp for making paper.
- halieutics — (literature) A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing.
- ham sth up — If actors or actresses ham it up, they exaggerate every emotion and gesture when they are acting, often deliberately because they think that the audience will be more amused.
- hantavirus — any of several viruses of the family Bunyaviridae, spread chiefly by wild rodents, that cause acute respiratory illness, kidney failure, and other syndromes.
- happy dust — cocaine.
- happy-dust — cocaine.
- hard stuff — strongly addictive drugs.
- hastefully — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hatshepsut — 1495–75 b.c, queen of Egypt.
- haughtiest — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- haustellum — (in certain crustaceans and insects) an organ or part of the proboscis adapted for sucking blood or plant juices.
- haustorium — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- hearthrugs — Plural form of hearthrug.
- helianthus — any composite plant of the genus Helianthus, comprising the sunflowers.
- hephaestus — the ancient Greek god of fire, metalworking, and handicrafts, identified by the Romans with Vulcan.
- heraclitus — ("the Obscure") c540–c470 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- hereabouts — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- hindustani — a standard language and lingua franca of northern India based on a dialect of Western Hindi spoken around Delhi. Abbreviation: Hind. Compare Hindi (def 2), Urdu.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- holocausts — Plural form of holocaust.