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10-letter words containing i, h, r

  • guitarfish — any sharklike ray of the family Rhinobatidae, of warm seas, resembling a guitar in shape.
  • gunfighter — a person highly skilled in the use of a gun and a veteran of many gunfights, especially one living during the frontier days of the American West.
  • gynarchies — Plural form of gynarchy.
  • habilatory — relating to clothes or dressed in clothes
  • hadrian ii — Italian ecclesiastic: pope a.d. 867–872.
  • hadrian iv — (Nicholas Breakspear) c1100–59, only Englishman to become pope, 1154–59.
  • hadrian vi — 1459–1523, Dutch ecclesiastic: pope 1522–23.
  • haematuria — Alternative spelling of hematuria.
  • hag-ridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
  • hagiocracy — government by a body of persons esteemed as holy.
  • hagiolatry — the worship of saints.
  • haidar ali — 1722–82, Islamic prince and military leader of India: ruler of Mysore 1759–82.
  • haidarabad — a former state in S India, now part of Andhra Pradesh, Mysore, and Maharashtra.
  • hailstorms — Plural form of hailstorm.
  • hair cream — a cosmetic preparation used to improve the condition of, and/or to style the hair
  • hair grass — any of various grasses having slender stems and leaves, especially one of the genus Deschampsia, as D. flexuosa or D. caespitosa.
  • hair sheep — any variety of sheep growing hair instead of wool, yielding hides with a finer and tougher grain than those of wool sheep
  • hair shirt — a garment of coarse haircloth, worn next to the skin as a penance by ascetics and penitents.
  • hair slide — a hinged clip with a tortoiseshell, bone, or similar back, used to fasten the hair
  • hair space — the thinnest metal space used to separate words, symbols, etc.
  • hair spray — a liquid in an aerosol or other spray container, for holding the hair in place.
  • hair style — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
  • hair weave — the process of hairweaving.
  • hair-shirt — a garment of coarse haircloth, worn next to the skin as a penance by ascetics and penitents.
  • haircutter — A barber.
  • hairpieces — Plural form of hairpiece.
  • hairspring — a fine, usually spiral, spring used for oscillating the balance of a timepiece.
  • hairstreak — any small, dark butterfly of the family Lycaenidae, having hairlike tails on the hind wings.
  • hairstyles — Plural form of hairstyle.
  • hairy ball — (topology)   A result in topology stating that a continuous vector field on a sphere is always zero somewhere. The name comes from the fact that you can't flatten all the hair on a hairy ball, like a tennis ball, there will always be a tuft somewhere (where the tangential projection of the hair is zero). An immediate corollary to this theorem is that for any continuous map f of the sphere into itself there is a point x such that f(x)=x or f(x) is the antipode of x. Another corollary is that at any moment somewhere on the Earth there is no wind.
  • hairy frog — a W African frog, Astylosternus robustus, the males of which have glandular hairlike processes on the flanks
  • hairy tare — Vicia hirsuta, a vetch plant of Eurasia and N Africa
  • halberdier — a soldier, guard, or attendant armed with a halberd.
  • half tiger — a five-rand coin
  • half-liter — a unit of capacity equal to 500 cubic centimeters.
  • half-miler — a half-mile race.
  • half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
  • half-quire — 12 uniform sheets of paper.
  • half-right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • hammerings — a series of punishments or beatings
  • hamstrings — Plural form of hamstring.
  • hand drill — a portable drill designed for two-handed operation.
  • hand-drier — an electrical appliance, usually found in public toilets, that dries a person's hands through the expulsion of hot air
  • handicraft — manual skill.
  • handprints — Plural form of handprint.
  • handspring — an acrobatic feat in which one starts from a standing position and wheels the body forward or backward in a complete circle, landing first on the hands and then on the feet, without contact by the rest of the body.
  • hanoverian — of or relating to the former ruling house of Hanover.
  • hansardize — to prove that (a member of parliament) has changed his views from those quoted in Hansard
  • hantavirus — any of several viruses of the family Bunyaviridae, spread chiefly by wild rodents, that cause acute respiratory illness, kidney failure, and other syndromes.
  • harald iii — surname Hardraade. 1015–66, king of Norway (1047–66); invaded England (1066) and died at the battle of Stamford Bridge
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