10-letter words containing s, h
- hamstrings — Plural form of hamstring.
- han cities — a group of three cities in E central China (Hanyang, Hankow, and Wuchang), in SE Hubei at the confluence of the Han and Yangtze Rivers; united in 1950 to form the conurbation of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province
- hand basin — sink for washing hands
- hand glass — a small mirror with a handle.
- hand press — a printing press requiring hand operation.
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hand-spike — a bar used as a lever.
- hand-spray — an attachment to a shower, sink unit, etc, that is not fixed in place but can instead be moved in order to aid washing
- handbasket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbrakes — Plural form of handbrake.
- handclasps — Plural form of handclasp.
- handcrafts — Plural form of handcraft.
- handedness — a tendency to use one hand more than the other.
- handfasted — Simple past tense and past participle of handfast.
- handlebars — Usually, handlebars. the curved steering bar of a bicycle, motorcycle, etc., placed in front of the rider and gripped by the hands. handlebar moustache.
- handleless — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- handphones — Plural form of handphone.
- handpieces — Plural form of handpiece.
- handprints — Plural form of handprint.
- hands down — of, belonging to, using, or used by the hand.
- hands-down — easy: a hands-down victory.
- hands-free — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- handscroll — A traditional Asian scroll that unfolds horizontally so that the reader can view one section at a time while holding it in the hands.
- handseling — Present participle of handsel.
- handselled — Simple past tense and past participle of handsel.
- handshaker — a person who is or is required to be overtly or ostentatiously friendly: Politicians are often incurable handshakers.
- handshakes — Plural form of handshake.
- handsomely — in a handsome manner; pleasingly; successfully.
- handsomest — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handspikes — Plural form of handspike.
- 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
- hang loose — to let loose; free from bonds or restraint.
- hansardize — to prove that (a member of parliament) has changed his views from those quoted in Hansard
- hantavirus — any of several viruses of the family Bunyaviridae, spread chiefly by wild rodents, that cause acute respiratory illness, kidney failure, and other syndromes.
- haplophase — the haploid portion of an organism's life cycle.
- haplotypes — Plural form of haplotype.
- happenings — something that happens; occurrence; event.
- happy dust — cocaine.
- happy-dust — cocaine.
- harassedly — in a harassed manner
- harassment — the act or an instance of harassing, or disturbing, pestering, or troubling repeatedly; persecution: She sued her boss for sexual harassment.
- harbingers — Plural form of harbinger.
- harborless — Alternative spelling of harbourless.
- 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