10-letter words containing t, h, r, o, a
- 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.
- homografts — Plural form of homograft.
- homopteran — homopterous.
- honeyeater — An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar.
- horizontal — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
- 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.
- hrotsvitha — c935–c1000, German nun, poet, and dramatist.
- humiliator — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- humoralist — a person who believes in humoralism
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- hydrazoate — a salt of hydrazoic acid; azide.
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hydropathy — the curing of disease by the internal and external use of water.
- hydrostats — Plural form of hydrostat.
- hydrotaxis — oriented movement toward or away from water.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
- hyoplastra — the second foremost pair of plastral bones in a turtle
- hypaethron — a part of a building or court which is open to the sky
- hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.
- 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.
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- inhabitors — Plural form of inhabitor.
- inhalators — Plural form of inhalator.
- irish boat — a small fishing boat used in the Boston area in the late 19th century, derived from an Irish model and having a cutter rig.
- isothermal — occurring at constant temperature.
- kota bharu — a state in Malaysia, on the central Malay Peninsula. 5750 sq. mi. (14,893 sq. km). Capital: Kota Bharu.
- kronshtadt — city & naval fortress on an island in NW Russia, on the Gulf of Finland: pop. 45,000
- lake worth — a city in SE Florida.
- largemouth — Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large mouth.
- late hours — rising and going to bed later than is usual
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- lithograph — a print produced by lithography.
- litholatry — the worship of stones
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- logarithms — Plural form of logarithm.
- lose heart — to become despondent or disillusioned (over something)
- lothair ii — ("the Saxon") c1070–1137, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and king of the Germans 1125–37.
- machinator — One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.