10-letter words containing r, h, d
- headhunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- headliners — Plural form of headliner.
- headmaster — the person in charge of a private school.
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- headsquare — a scarf worn on the head
- headstream — a stream that is the source, or one of the sources, of a river.
- headstripe — A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
- headstrong — determined to have one's own way; willful; stubborn; obstinate: a headstrong young man.
- headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headwaters — The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- hearthside — fireside.
- heartlands — Plural form of heartland.
- heavenward — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- 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
- heidelberg — a city in NW Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany: university, founded 1386.
- hellbender — a large salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, of rivers and streams in eastern North America, having a flat, stout body and broad head.
- hemerobiid — (zoology) Any insect of the brown lacewing family, Hemerobiidae.
- hemihedral — (of a crystal) having only half the planes or faces required by the maximum symmetry of the system to which it belongs.
- hemihedron — a substance of hemihedral type
- hemorrhoid — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
- henry dale — Sir Henry Hallett [hal-it] /ˈhæl ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1875–1968, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.
- henry ford — Elizabeth Bloomer ("Betty") 1918–2011, U.S. First Lady 1974–77 (wife of Gerald R. Ford).
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- heraclidae — a drama (429? b.c.) by Euripides.
- heraldship — the office or position of a herald
- herbicidal — Of, or relating to herbicides.
- herbicides — Plural form of herbicide.
- herdswoman — The female equivalent of a herdsman.
- herdswomen — Plural form of herdswoman.
- hereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- heredities — Plural form of heredity.
- hereditist — hereditarian.
- heroicized — heroize.
- hesperides — Classical Mythology. (used with a plural verb) nymphs, variously given as three to seven in number, who guarded with the dragon Ladon the golden apples that were the wedding gift of Gaea to Hera. (used with a singular verb) the garden where the golden apples were grown. (used with a plural verb) Islands of the Blessed.
- hesperidin — a crystallizable, bioflavinoid glycoside, C 28 H 34 O 15 , occurring in most citrus fruits, especially in the spongy envelope of oranges and lemons.
- heterodont — (of most mammals) having teeth of different types
- heterodoxy — heterodox state or quality.
- heterodyne — noting or pertaining to a method of changing the frequency of an incoming radio signal by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals.
- hexachords — Plural form of hexachord.
- hexahedral — Having six plane surfaces.
- hexahedron — a solid figure having six faces, as a cube.
- hexahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) hexahydroxy.
- hexandrian — (of a plant) having six stamens
- hexandrous — (of a plant) having six stamen
- hibernated — Simple past tense and past participle of hibernate.
- high board — a diving board three meters above the water.
- high-grade — of excellent or superior quality.
- highbinder — a swindler; confidence man; cheat.
- highbrowed — (of a person) highbrow; intellectual and cultured.
- highlander — a Gael inhabiting the Highlands of Scotland.