10-letter words containing s, o, t, h, e
- homiletics — the art of preaching; the branch of practical theology that treats of homilies or sermons.
- homostyled — (of a plant) having styles of the same form or length in all flowers.
- honestness — Quality of being honest.
- hope chest — (especially formerly) a chest or the like in which a young woman collected clothing, linens, and other articles in anticipation of marriage.
- horsecloth — a cloth used to cover a horse, or as part of its trappings.
- horsetails — Plural form of horsetail.
- horsethief — Alternative spelling of horse thief.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- hostellers — Plural form of hosteller.
- hostelling — Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
- hostelries — Plural form of hostelry.
- hostessing — a woman who receives and entertains guests in her own home or elsewhere.
- hosts file — (networking) A text file on a networked computer used to associate host names with IP addresses. A hosts file contains lines consisting of whitespace-separated fields giving an IP address followed by list of host names or aliases associated with that address. The name resolution library software can use this file to look up the IP address for a host name. The hosts file is "/etc/hosts" on Unix and "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" or "lmhosts" on Microsoft Windows, In most cases, hosts files have now been almost entirely replaced by DNS, in which distributed servers provide the same information. A hosts file can still be used to override DNS for testing purposes or other special situations.
- hotel ship — a ship which is moored and used as a hotel
- house moth — either of two species of micro moth, esp the brown house moth (Hofmannophila pseudospretella) which, although it usually inhabits birds' nests, sometimes enters houses where its larvae can be very destructive of stored fabrics and foodstuffs
- house seat — one of a number of seats in a theater that the management reserves for special guests, friends of the producer or cast, etc.
- house-hunt — to search for a house to buy or rent
- houseboats — Plural form of houseboat.
- housecoats — Plural form of housecoat.
- housefront — the façade of a house
- houseguest — a person staying with a household as a guest for one night or longer.
- houselight — One of the lights in an auditorium.
- housemates — Plural form of housemate.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- hoverports — Plural form of hoverport.
- huddleston — (Ernest Urban) Trevor, 1913–1998, English Anglican archbishop and antiapartheid activist in Africa.
- huntswomen — Plural form of huntswoman.
- hydathodes — Plural form of hydathode.
- hydrolytes — a substance subjected to hydrolysis.
- hylotheism — any philosophical doctrine identifying a god or gods with matter.
- hylotheist — an adherent of hylotheism
- hypnotised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypnotise.
- hypnotises — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hypnotize.
- hypocrites — Plural form of hypocrite.
- hypostases — Metaphysics. something that stands under and supports; foundation. the underlying or essential part of anything as distinguished from attributes; substance, essence, or essential principle.
- hypostress — the stress which is caused by boredom or lack of motivation
- hypotenuse — the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
- hypotheses — a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.
- hypothesis — a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.
- hypsometer — thermobarometer (def 1).
- hypsometry — vertical control in mapping; the establishment of elevations or altitudes.
- imposthume — (obsolete) an abscess.
- inheritors — a person who inherits; heir.
- intershock — To shock mutually, as if by collision.
- isoplethic — Relating to isopleths.