10-letter words containing r, h, a, b, d
- hand brake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- handballer — A handball player.
- handbarrow — a frame with handles at each end by which it is carried.
- handbrakes — Plural form of handbrake.
- handlebars — Usually, handlebars. the curved steering bar of a bicycle, motorcycle, etc., placed in front of the rider and gripped by the hands. handlebar moustache.
- harborside — bordering a harbor.
- hard labor — compulsory labor imposed upon criminals in addition to imprisonment, generally not exceeding ordinary labor in severity or amount.
- hard-bound — hardcover
- hardbacked — (of a book) Having a solid binding; hardback.
- hardballer — (informal) One who exhibits hardball (tough or ruthless) behaviour.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- hardenable — to make hard or harder: to harden steel.
- hardenberg — Novalis.
- headbanger — metalhead.
- headboards — Plural form of headboard.
- hebdomadar — (in Scottish universities and grammar schools) a name given to the member of staff whose weekly turn it is to supervise the behaviour of students
- herbicidal — Of, or relating to herbicides.
- hibernated — Simple past tense and past participle of hibernate.
- high board — a diving board three meters above the water.
- hildebrand — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- hindbrains — Plural form of hindbrain.
- hog badger — a SE Asian badger, Arctonyx collaris, with a piglike mobile snout
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- home brand — an item packaged and marketed under the brand name of a particular retailer, usually a large supermarket chain, rather than that of the manufacturer
- hoverboard — (science fiction) A levitating board that can be ridden in the manner of a surfboard or skateboard.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- hybrid car — vehicle with combined power source
- hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- inbreathed — Simple past tense and past participle of inbreathe.
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- marblehead — a resort in NE Massachusetts: yachting.
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- nudibranch — a shell-less, marine snail of the suborder Nudibranchia, having external, often branched respiratory appendages on the back and sides.
- patchboard — a device with a large number of sockets into which electrical plugs can be inserted to form many different temporary circuits: used in telephone exchanges, computer systems, etc
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- rhabdolith — a minute rodlike structure, believed by some to be algae, found at the bottom and the surface of the ocean, and which is composed of calcium carbonate, calcium or limestone
- rhabdomere — one of the many parts that makes up a rhabdom
- rhomboidal — shaped almost like a diamond or rhomboid
- rugby head — a male follower of rugby culture
- ship-bread — hardtack.
- shortboard — a type of surfboard that is shorter than standard
- shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- the boards — the acting profession; the stage
- third base — the third in counterclockwise order of the bases from home plate.
- threadbare — having the nap worn off so as to lay bare the threads of the warp and woof, as a fabric, garment, etc.
- timberhead — the top end of a timber, rising above the deck and serving for belaying ropes.
- unbirthday — any day other than one's birthday