10-letter words containing t, h, i, s
- highlights — An outstanding part of an event or period of time.
- hilarities — cheerfulness; merriment; mirthfulness.
- hill start — the act of starting a car or other vehicle on an incline
- hinayanist — a Buddhist of the Hinayana school.
- hindermost — Hindmost.
- hindustani — a standard language and lingua franca of northern India based on a dialect of Western Hindi spoken around Delhi. Abbreviation: Hind. Compare Hindi (def 2), Urdu.
- hintermost — Most remote; closest to the outer edge or back.
- hippolytus — Also, Hippolytos [hi-pol-i-tuh s, -tos] /hɪˈpɒl ɪ təs, -ˌtɒs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. the son of Theseus who was falsely accused by his stepmother, Phaedra, of raping her after he had rejected her advances and who was killed by Poseidon in response to the plea of Theseus.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- hipsterdom — The state of being a hipster.
- hipsterish — Like a hipster; (often pretentiously) trendy.
- hipsterism — the style of life of a hipster.
- hirtellous — minutely hirsute.
- histamines — Plural form of histamine.
- histaminic — Biochemistry, Physiology. a heterocyclic amine, C 5 H 9 N 3 , released by mast cells when tissue is injured or in allergic and inflammatory reactions, causing dilation of small blood vessels and smooth muscle contraction.
- histiocyte — A stationary phagocytic cell present in connective tissue.
- histoblast — a cell or group of cells capable of forming tissue.
- histograms — Plural form of histogram.
- histologic — the branch of biology dealing with the study of tissues.
- histolysis — disintegration or dissolution of organic tissues.
- historians — Plural form of historian.
- historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- historico- — historical, historical and
- histrionic — of or relating to actors or acting.
- hit single — a successful and popular song which has sold many copies
- hitchhikes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hitchhike.
- hithermost — nearest in this direction.
- hitherside — the nearer side of something or someone
- hold still — If you hold still, you do not move.
- holosteric — (of an instrument or device) wholly constructed of solids, without any liquids
- holstering — Present participle of holster.
- home visit — a visit by a health professional to a patient in their home
- homiletics — the art of preaching; the branch of practical theology that treats of homilies or sermons.
- 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
- horologist — an expert in horology.
- 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.
- hospitably — 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- hot switch — a rapid transfer from one point of origin to another during a broadcast.