10-letter words containing n, o, a, h
- homoousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence or substance of the Father and the Son is the same (opposed to Heteroousian).
- homopteran — homopterous.
- homorganic — (of two or more speech sounds) having the same place of articulation, as p, b, and m, which are all bilabial.
- homuncular — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- honey bear — a kinkajou.
- honeyeater — An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar.
- honor camp — a prison work camp operating on an honor system.
- honor card — honor (def 11).
- honoraries — Plural form of honorary.
- honorarily — given for honor only, without the usual requirements, duties, privileges, emoluments, etc.: The university presented the new governor with an honorary degree.
- honorarium — a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.
- honourable — (British spelling) Alternative form of honorable.
- honourably — (British) In a honourable manner.
- hoop snake — any of several harmless snakes, as the mud snake and rainbow snake, fabled to take its tail in its mouth and roll along like a hoop.
- hootenanny — a social gathering or informal concert featuring folk singing and, sometimes, dancing.
- hop garden — a field of hops
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- horizontal — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
- hormogonia — a portion of filament in blue-green algae that becomes detached and reproduces by cell division.
- hormonally — In a hormonal way.
- horn chair — a chair, especially of the late 19th-century U.S., having a frame made from steer, elk, buffalo, or other animal horns.
- horse bean — fava bean.
- horsedrawn — Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.
- horsewoman — a woman who rides on horseback.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- hour angle — the angle, measured westward through 360°, between the celestial meridian of an observer and the hour circle of a celestial body.
- housatonic — a river flowing S from NW Massachusetts through SW Connecticut to Long Island Sound near Stratford, Connecticut. 148 miles (240 km) long.
- houseclean — to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
- 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.
- hu yaobang — 1915–89, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party 1981–87.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- human body — the physical structure and material substance of a human being, consisting of many billions of cells as well as components outside of the cells: The average adult human body is 50–65% water.
- humaniform — Like a human or that of a human in form, seeming, or appearance.
- 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.
- hyalophane — a variety of orthoclase in which some of the potassium is replaced by barium.
- hyaluronic — Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives.
- hycanthone — A particular schistosomicide, a metabolite of lucanthone.
- hydromancy — divination by means of the motions or appearance of water.
- hydromania — an excessive craving or love for water
- hydrophane — a partly translucent variety of opal, which becomes more translucent or transparent when immersed in water.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hydrozoans — Plural form of hydrozoan.
- hygiaphone — a glass screen through which an employee may speak to members of the public, eg at a ticket office
- 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.”.