10-letter words containing r, w
- hagerstown — a city in NW Maryland.
- hair weave — the process of hairweaving.
- half crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- half-crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- half-grown — advanced in growth: a grown boy.
- hand mower — a lawn mower that is pushed by hand (distinguished from power mower).
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- handbarrow — a frame with handles at each end by which it is carried.
- handwarmer — a small, flat, usually pocket-size device containing material, as chemicals, hot liquids, or a battery-operated heating element, for warming the hands.
- hard power — the ability to achieve one's goals by force, esp military force
- hard water — water that contains magnesium, calcium, or iron salts and therefore forms a soap lather with difficulty.
- hard wheat — a wheat, as durum wheat, characterized by flinty, dark-colored kernels that yield a flour used in making bread, macaroni, etc.
- hard-wired — Computers. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
- hardwarily — /hard-weir'*-lee/ In a way pertaining to hardware. "The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective "hardwary" is *not* traditionally used, though it has recently been reported from the U.K. See softwarily.
- hardwiring — a fixed connection between electrical and electronic components and devices by means of wires (as distinguished from a wireless connection).
- harm's way — danger; a dangerous situation: to get out of harm's way during a storm.
- harmsworth — Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe, 1865–1922, English journalist, publisher, and politician.
- hashbrowns — Alternative spelling of hash browns.
- hateworthy — Worthy of being hated, detestable, despicable.
- 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.
- heartworms — Plural form of heartworm.
- heath wren — either of two ground-nesting warblers of southern Australia, Hylacola pyrrhopygia or H. cauta, noted for their song and their powers of mimicry
- heavenward — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- hellerwork — a form of deep tissue massage intended to release the build-up of physical and emotional traumas in the body
- herdswoman — The female equivalent of a herdsman.
- herdswomen — Plural form of herdswoman.
- herskowitz — Melville (Jean) 1895–1963, American anthropologist.
- high water — water at its greatest elevation, as in a river.
- high-power — (of a rifle) of a sufficiently high muzzle velocity and using a heavy enough bullet to kill large game.
- highbrowed — (of a person) highbrow; intellectual and cultured.
- higher law — an ethical or religious principle considered as taking precedence over the laws of society, and to which one may appeal in order to justify disobedience to a constitution or enacted law with which it conflicts.
- hillwalker — a person who goes hillwalking
- hitherward — hither.
- hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- hollowware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
- hollywired — Siliwood
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- home owner — A home owner is a person who owns the house or flat that they live in.
- home-grown — grown or produced at home or in a particular region for local consumption: homegrown tomatoes.
- homebrewer — One who brews his or her own beer or other alcoholic beverage; one who homebrews.
- homeowners — Plural form of homeowner.
- homeworker — a person who works at home for pay, especially a pieceworker.
- hoodiecrow — A hooded crow, Corvus cornix.
- hoodwinker — One who hoodwinks.
- hornblower — One who, or that which, blows a horn.
- horned owl — any large owl of the genus Bubo, having prominent ear tufts: family Strigidae
- horse show — a competitive display of the capabilities and qualities of horses and their riders or handlers, usually held as an annual event.
- horse-whip — a whip for controlling horses.
- horsedrawn — Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.