10-letter words containing t, e, r, h, a
- herniation — to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.
- hesitatory — Hesitating.
- heterarchy — (uncountable) The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.
- heteroatom — an atom other than carbon in the ring structure of a heterocyclic compound.
- heterogamy — heterogamous state.
- hexameters — Plural form of hexameter.
- hibernated — Simple past tense and past participle of hibernate.
- hibernates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hibernate.
- hibernator — Something that hibernates.
- hieratical — Also, hieratical. of or relating to priests or the priesthood; sacerdotal; priestly.
- hierolatry — worship or veneration of saints or sacred things.
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- high water — water at its greatest elevation, as in a river.
- hilarities — cheerfulness; merriment; mirthfulness.
- hinterland — Often, hinterlands. the remote or less developed parts of a country; back country: The hinterlands are usually much more picturesque than the urban areas.
- hit parade — a listing or category of popular songs ranked according to their popularity with listeners, usually as shown by sales of records.
- hitherward — hither.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- homopteran — homopterous.
- honeyeater — An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar.
- horsetails — Plural form of horsetail.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- 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-walker — a person whose job is walking racehorses after races, workouts, etc. to allow them to cool off gradually
- hotel rack — rack6 (def 2).
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- hovercraft — ACV.
- hovertrain — an experimental high-speed train that rides on a cushion of air over a concrete guide track in the shape of an inverted T and is propelled by one or more propellers or jet engines.
- huntmaster — (chiefly, fantasy) The leader of a hunt.
- hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
- hydrastine — an alkaloid, C 21 H 21 NO 6 , that is extracted from the roots of goldenseal and forms prismatic crystals: used as an astringent and to inhibit uterine bleeding.
- hydrazoate — a salt of hydrazoic acid; azide.
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
- hypaethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypaethron — a part of a building or court which is open to the sky
- hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- hyperalert — fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hyphenator — One who, or that which, hyphenates.
- hypometria — Dysmetria in which the patient tends to undershoot the intended target.
- hypothenar — the fleshly prominence on the palm at the base of the little finger.
- hysterical — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- in feather — feathered