10-letter words containing o, r, c, h
- hagiocracy — government by a body of persons esteemed as holy.
- half crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- half-crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- halocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing carbon, one or more halogens, and sometimes hydrogen.
- hammerlock — a hold in which one arm of an opponent is twisted and forced upward behind his back.
- handscroll — A traditional Asian scroll that unfolds horizontally so that the reader can view one section at a time while holding it in the hands.
- hard court — a tennis court having a concrete or asphalt surface.
- hard-coded — (jargon) (By analogy with "hard-wired") Said of a data value or behaviour written directly into a program, possibly in multiple places, where it cannot be easily modified. There are several alternatives, depending on how often the value is likely to change. It may be replaced with a compile-time constant, such as a C "#define" macro, in which case a change will still require recompilation; or it may be read at run time from a profile, resource (see de-rezz), or environment variable that a user can easily modify; or it may be read as part of the program's input data. To change something hard-coded requires recompilation (if using a compiled language of course) but, more seriously, it requires sufficient understanding of the implementation to be sure that the change will not introduce inconsistency and cause the program to fail. For example, "The line terminator is hard-coded as newline; who in their right mind would use anything else?" See magic number.
- hard-knock — beset with hardship.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- harmonical — Alternative form of harmonic.
- harmonicas — Plural form of harmonica.
- harmonicon — harmonica (def 1).
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- headcollar — A bitless headpiece for leading or tying up a horse.
- 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.
- hectoliter — a unit of capacity equal to 100 liters, equivalent to 2.8378 U.S. bushels, or 26.418 U.S. gallons. Abbreviation: hl.
- hectolitre — a unit of capacity equal to 100 liters, equivalent to 2.8378 U.S. bushels, or 26.418 U.S. gallons. Abbreviation: hl.
- hectometer — a unit of length equal to 100 meters, or 328.08 feet. Abbreviation: hm.
- hectometre — a unit of length equal to 100 meters, or 328.08 feet. Abbreviation: hm.
- hectorship — the quality or character of a hector
- hectostere — a unit of capacity equal to 100 steres, or 131 cubic yards.
- helicopter — any of a class of heavier-than-air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine.
- hemachrome — Alternative form of haemachrome.
- hematocrit — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- hemochrome — the red coloring matter of the blood.
- henceforth — from now on; from this point forward.
- 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.
- herbaceous — of, relating to, or characteristic of an herb; herblike.
- heroic age — one of the five periods in human history, when, according to Hesiod, gods and demigods performed heroic and glorious deeds.
- heroically — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- heroicized — heroize.
- heroicness — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- heroicomic — blending heroic and comic elements: a heroicomic poem.
- heterocyst — one of the enlarged nitrogen-fixing cells occurring along the filaments in some blue-green algae.
- hexachords — Plural form of hexachord.
- hierocracy — rule or government by priests or ecclesiastics.
- hieromancy — divination through studying objects offered in sacrifice
- hieronymic — of or relating to St. Jerome.
- high court — Supreme Court.
- hippocrene — a spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration.
- historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- historico- — historical, historical and
- histrionic — of or relating to actors or acting.
- hochheimer — a Rhine wine produced at Hochheim, near Mainz, Germany.
- hog sucker — any of several suckers of the genus Hypentelium, inhabiting cool streams of eastern North America and characterized by a broad head that is concave above.
- hold court — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- holocarpic — (of a fungus) having the entire thallus converted into fruiting bodies.