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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.
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