10-letter words containing s, p, h, r
- herophilus — died ?280 bc, Greek anatomist in Alexandria. He was the first to distinguish sensory from motor nerves
- hesperides — Classical Mythology. (used with a plural verb) nymphs, variously given as three to seven in number, who guarded with the dragon Ladon the golden apples that were the wedding gift of Gaea to Hera. (used with a singular verb) the garden where the golden apples were grown. (used with a plural verb) Islands of the Blessed.
- hesperidin — a crystallizable, bioflavinoid glycoside, C 28 H 34 O 15 , occurring in most citrus fruits, especially in the spongy envelope of oranges and lemons.
- hesperinos — vesper (def 3).
- hey presto — magician's conjuring words
- hiphuggers — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
- hipparchus — died 514 b.c, tyrant of Athens 527–514.
- hipsterdom — The state of being a hipster.
- hipsterish — Like a hipster; (often pretentiously) trendy.
- hipsterism — the style of life of a hipster.
- 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.”.
- homosphere — The lower part of the atmosphere, up to about sixty miles, in which there is no great change in its composition.
- hoofprints — Plural form of hoofprint.
- hoop skirt — a woman's skirt made to stand out and drape in a stiff bell-like shape from the waist by an undergarment framework of flexible hoops connected by tapes.
- hoop-skirt — a skirt that has hoops made of bone or metal, etc fastened inside it to make it stiff and full
- horoscopes — Plural form of horoscope.
- horse-whip — a whip for controlling horses.
- horsepower — a foot-pound-second unit of power, equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second, or 745.7 watts.
- horsewhips — Plural form of horsewhip.
- 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.
- hot spring — a thermal spring having water warmer than 98°F (37°C): the water is usually heated by emanation from or passage near hot or molten rock.
- houseproud — Alternative form of house-proud.
- hoverports — Plural form of hoverport.
- hydroscope — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hygroscope — an instrument that indicates the approximate humidity of the air.
- hygroscopy — The ability of a substance to attract and hold water molecules from the surrounding environment.
- hyoplastra — the second foremost pair of plastral bones in a turtle
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hyperboles — Plural form of hyperbole.
- hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
- hypercubes — Plural form of hypercube.
- hyperdense — (medicine) Extremely dense.
- hyperlapse — Lb photography A form of time-lapse photography where the camera is gradually moved across a long distance, such as down a highway, and a frame is captured at each new position.
- hyperlinks — Plural form of hyperlink.
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
- hypersleep — (scifi) A form of suspended animation in which the body's functions are not merely slowed down but halted entirely.
- hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
- hyperspace — a Euclidean space of dimension greater than three.
- hypersparc — (processor) The successor to the SuperSPARC processor, based on the SPARC ISA. The HyperSPARC has smaller caches than the SuperSPARC: 8kb on-chip and 256kb off-chip (compared with 36kb and 1Mb). The HyperSPARC's memory management is optimised for more efficient out-of-cache addressing which means quicker access to external (slower, cheaper) memory.
- hyperspeed — Extremely high speed.
- hypertense — extremely or abnormally tense, excitable, or snappish.
- hypertexts — Plural form of hypertext.
- hypervisor — (computing) A software and/or firmware system that provides a virtual machine and allows it to operate directly on underlying hardware (instead of via emulation), but within specified constraints.
- hypocorism — a pet name.
- hypocrisie — Obsolete form of hypocrisy.