10-letter words containing o, r, a, t, e
- hagerstown — a city in NW Maryland.
- hammer out — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- hammertoes — Plural form of hammertoe.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- haptometer — a mechanical device for measuring the sense of touch.
- hartlepool — a seaport city in NE England.
- hatemonger — a person who kindles hatred, enmity, or prejudice in others.
- hateration — (African American Vernacular English, slang) Hatred, hostility, animus.
- hateworthy — Worthy of being hated, detestable, despicable.
- headstrong — determined to have one's own way; willful; stubborn; obstinate: a headstrong young man.
- heartbroke — heartbroken
- heartthrob — a rapid beat or pulsation of the heart.
- heartworms — Plural form of heartworm.
- heatstroke — a disturbance of the temperature-regulating mechanisms of the body caused by overexposure to excessive heat, resulting in fever, hot and dry skin, and rapid pulse, sometimes progressing to delirium and coma.
- hectograms — Plural form of hectogram.
- hectograph — a process for making copies of a letter, memorandum, etc., from a prepared gelatin surface to which the original writing has been transferred.
- hektograph — to copy with the hectograph.
- heliolatry — worship of the sun.
- hematocrit — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- hemothorax — (medicine) A condition resulting from accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity.
- heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- heptameron — A literary work whose action covers a period of seven days.
- 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.
- 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.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- 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.
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- homopteran — homopterous.
- honeyeater — An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar.
- horsetails — Plural form of horsetail.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- 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.
- 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).
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- hovercraft — ACV.
- 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.
- hydrazoate — a salt of hydrazoic acid; azide.
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.