10-letter words containing s, h, a, d
- handspring — an acrobatic feat in which one starts from a standing position and wheels the body forward or backward in a complete circle, landing first on the hands and then on the feet, without contact by the rest of the body.
- handstands — Plural form of handstand.
- handstitch — to stitch or sew by hand.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- hansardize — to prove that (a member of parliament) has changed his views from those quoted in Hansard
- happy dust — cocaine.
- happy-dust — cocaine.
- harassedly — in a harassed manner
- harborside — bordering a harbor.
- hard crash — (programming) When a program stops running completely and unexpectedly, often due to external events, e.g. the CPU overheating or an unrecoverable memory error. See also disk crash.
- hard goods — durable goods
- hard grass — any of several types of coarse grass
- hard lines — bad luck
- hard paste — true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
- hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
- hard stuff — strongly addictive drugs.
- hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hard yards — a great deal of effort or hard work, esp in playing a sport
- hard-assed — tough and uncompromising
- hard-asset — denoting an asset with intrinsic value: diamonds and other hard-asset commodities.
- hard-nosed — hardheaded or tough; unsentimentally practical: a hard-nosed labor leader.
- hard-shell — Also, hard-shelled. having a firm, hard shell, as a crab in its normal state; not having recently molted.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- hardliners — Plural form of hardliner.
- hardnesses — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
- harmonised — Simple past tense and past participle of harmonise.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- hazardless — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- head louse — See under louse (def 1).
- head nurse — the chief nurse in a hospital; matron
- head start — an advantage given or acquired in any competition, endeavor, etc., as allowing one or more competitors in a race to start before the others.
- head-first — If you move head-first in a particular direction, your head is the part of your body that is furthest forward as you are moving.
- headboards — Plural form of headboard.
- headcheese — a seasoned loaf made of the head meat, sometimes including the tongue or brains, of a calf or pig and molded in the natural aspic of the head.
- headedness — The state or quality of having a particular type of head.
- headframes — Plural form of headframe.
- headlessly — In a headless way.
- headlights — a light or lamp, usually equipped with a reflector, on the front of an automobile, locomotive, etc.
- headliners — Plural form of headliner.
- headmaster — the person in charge of a private school.
- headphones — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
- headpieces — Plural form of headpiece.
- heads down — [Sun] Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also hack mode and larval stage, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers.
- headsheets — the sheet of a foresail; foresheet
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- headsquare — a scarf worn on the head
- headstalls — (British) Plural form of headstall.
- headstands — Plural form of headstand.
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.