10-letter words containing s, p, h, a
- half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
- halophiles — Plural form of halophile.
- halophytes — Plural form of halophyte.
- ham sth up — If actors or actresses ham it up, they exaggerate every emotion and gesture when they are acting, often deliberately because they think that the audience will be more amused.
- hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
- hand press — a printing press requiring hand operation.
- 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
- handclasps — Plural form of handclasp.
- handphones — Plural form of handphone.
- handpieces — Plural form of handpiece.
- handprints — Plural form of handprint.
- 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.
- 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.
- hard paste — true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
- hatshepsut — 1495–75 b.c, queen of Egypt.
- hawsepipes — Plural form of hawsepipe.
- headphones — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
- headpieces — Plural form of headpiece.
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- headstripe — A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
- health spa — a resort or a special building or room where a person may exercise, swim, or otherwise condition the body.
- heavy spar — barite.
- heliopause — the boundary of the heliosphere.
- hephaestus — the ancient Greek god of fire, metalworking, and handicrafts, identified by the Romans with Vulcan.
- heptastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of seven lines or verses.
- heraldship — the office or position of a herald
- herb paris — a European plant, Paris quadrifolia, of the lily family, formerly used in medicine.
- hetmanship — the position of a hetman
- hexapodous — (zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
- hipparchus — died 514 b.c, tyrant of Athens 527–514.
- hippomanes — (formerly) a substance found on the forehead of a newborn foal or obtained from a mare in foal, thought to act as an aphrodisiac
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- hispanidad — hispanism, especially as directed toward political objectives.
- hispaniola — an island in the West Indies, comprising the republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 29,843 sq. mi. (77,293 sq. km).
- holographs — Plural form of holograph.
- holophrase — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- homographs — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- hoop snake — any of several harmless snakes, as the mud snake and rainbow snake, fabled to take its tail in its mouth and roll along like a hoop.
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.