10-letter words containing r, h, a, e
- tachymeter — any of several instruments for rapidly determining distances, directions, and differences of elevation.
- tachymetry — any of several instruments for rapidly determining distances, directions, and differences of elevation.
- take heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- tannhauser — a German lyric poet of the 13th century: a well-known legend tells of his stay with Venus in the Venusberg and his later repentance.
- teacherage — a building serving as a combination school and living quarters, as on certain government reservations and in remote, sparsely settled areas.
- tear sheet — a sheet or page torn from a magazine, journal, or the like, as one containing an advertisement and sent to the advertiser as proof of publication.
- tear shell — tear bomb.
- technocrat — a proponent, adherent, or supporter of technocracy.
- technofear — fear of using technological devices, such as computers; technophobia
- telegraphy — the art or practice of constructing or operating telegraphs.
- telpherage — a transportation system in which cars or other carriers are suspended from or run on wire cables or the like, especially one operated by electricity.
- telpherman — someone who operates or works on a telpher
- tereshkova — Valentina Vladimirovna [vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh vluh-dyi-myee-ruh v-nuh] /və lyɪnˈtyi nə vlə dyɪˈmyi rəv nə/ (Show IPA), born 1937, Soviet cosmonaut: first woman in space 1963.
- terrachlor — pentachloronitrobenzene.
- tetherball — a game for two persons, in which each player, standing on each side of a post from the top of which a ball is suspended by a cord, hits the ball with the hand or a paddle in a direction opposite to that in which the other player hits it, the object being to coil the cord completely around the post.
- tetrabrach — a metrical foot or word of four short syllables.
- tetrachord — a diatonic series of four tones, the first and last separated by a perfect fourth.
- tetraethyl — containing four ethyl groups.
- tetrahedra — Geometry. a solid contained by four plane faces; a triangular pyramid.
- tetrastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of four lines.
- tetrathlon — a contest featuring four sporting disciplines
- thailander — Also called Thailander [tahy-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈtaɪˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a native or descendant of a native of Thailand.
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- the archer — the constellation Sagittarius, the ninth sign of the zodiac
- the arctic — the regions north of the Arctic Circle
- the azores — three groups of volcanic islands in the N Atlantic, since 1976 an autonomous region of Portugal. Capital: Ponta Delgada (on São Miguel). Pop: 241 762 (2001). Area: 2335 sq km (901 sq miles)
- the boards — the acting profession; the stage
- the breaks — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
- the cellar — the lowest position, as in the relative standing of competing teams
- the charts — the lists produced weekly from various sources of the bestselling pop singles and albums or the most popular videos
- the cratur — whisky or whiskey
- the dragon — the constellation Draco
- the grades — elementary school
- the grange — an association of farmers that strongly influenced state legislatures in the late 19th century
- the lizard — a promontory in SW England, in SW Cornwall: the southernmost point in Great Britain
- the majors — the major leagues
- the market — business or trade in a commodity as specified
- the master — the man of the house
- the matter — the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed: the matter of which the earth is made.
- the moirai — the Greek goddesses of fate
- the pamirs — a mountainous area of central Asia, mainly in Tajikistan and partly in Kyrgyzstan, extending into China and Afghanistan: consists of a complex of high ranges, from which the Tian Shan projects to the north, the Kunlun and Karakoram to the east, and the Hindu Kush to the west; Ismoil Somoni (formerly Communism Peak) is situated in the Tajik Pamirs. Highest peak: Kongur Shan, 7719 m (25 326 ft)
- the papers — newspapers
- the parcae — the Roman goddesses of fate
- the rabbis — the early Jewish scholars whose teachings are recorded in the Talmud
- the rabble — the common people
- the strand — a street in W central London, parallel to the Thames: famous for its hotels and theatres
- the tarmac — a runway at an airport
- the tartan — Highland dress
- the wirral — a peninsula in NW England between the estuaries of the Rivers Mersey and Dee
- the-grange — a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.