10-letter words containing o, s, i, r
- histrionic — of or relating to actors or acting.
- hithermost — nearest in this direction.
- holosteric — (of an instrument or device) wholly constructed of solids, without any liquids
- holstering — Present participle of holster.
- home fries — pan-fried potatoes
- honoraries — Plural form of honorary.
- honorifics — Plural form of honorific.
- honorius i — died a.d. 638, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 625–638.
- hoofprints — Plural form of hoofprint.
- hoop skirt — a woman's skirt made to stand out and drape in a stiff bell-like shape from the waist by an undergarment framework of flexible hoops connected by tapes.
- hoop-skirt — a skirt that has hoops made of bone or metal, etc fastened inside it to make it stiff and full
- horologist — an expert in horology.
- horridness — The quality of being horrid.
- horse-whip — a whip for controlling horses.
- horsebrier — catbrier.
- horseflies — Plural form of horsefly.
- horsehides — Plural form of horsehide.
- horserider — Someone who rides a horse.
- horsetails — Plural form of horsetail.
- horsethief — Alternative spelling of horse thief.
- horsewhips — Plural form of horsewhip.
- 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.
- hostelries — Plural form of hostelry.
- hot spring — a thermal spring having water warmer than 98°F (37°C): the water is usually heated by emanation from or passage near hot or molten rock.
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- hoverflies — Plural form of hoverfly.
- hrotsvitha — c935–c1000, German nun, poet, and dramatist.
- humoralism — a theory of the composition and workings of the human body, based on the idea that it was filled with four basic substances, or humours, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.
- humoralist — a person who believes in humoralism
- humoristic — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- hydrofoils — Plural form of hydrofoil.
- hydrolysis — chemical decomposition in which a compound is split into other compounds by reacting with water.
- hydrosolic — of or relating to a hydrosol
- hydrotaxis — oriented movement toward or away from water.
- hydroxides — Plural form of hydroxide.
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
- hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
- hypervisor — (computing) A software and/or firmware system that provides a virtual machine and allows it to operate directly on underlying hardware (instead of via emulation), but within specified constraints.
- hypocorism — a pet name.
- hypocrisie — Obsolete form of hypocrisy.
- hypocrites — Plural form of hypocrite.
- hypodermis — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- idolatress — A female idolater.
- idolatries — Plural form of idolatry.
- idolatrous — worshiping idols.