10-letter words containing w, h
- hand mower — a lawn mower that is pushed by hand (distinguished from power mower).
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hand towel — small towel for drying the hands
- hand-woven — woven by hand rather than by machine
- handbarrow — a frame with handles at each end by which it is carried.
- hands down — of, belonging to, using, or used by the hand.
- hands-down — easy: a hands-down victory.
- handwarmer — a small, flat, usually pocket-size device containing material, as chemicals, hot liquids, or a battery-operated heating element, for warming the hands.
- handywoman — Female equivalent of handyman.
- handywomen — Plural form of handywoman.
- hard power — the ability to achieve one's goals by force, esp military force
- hard water — water that contains magnesium, calcium, or iron salts and therefore forms a soap lather with difficulty.
- hard wheat — a wheat, as durum wheat, characterized by flinty, dark-colored kernels that yield a flour used in making bread, macaroni, etc.
- hard-wired — Computers. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
- hardwarily — /hard-weir'*-lee/ In a way pertaining to hardware. "The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective "hardwary" is *not* traditionally used, though it has recently been reported from the U.K. See softwarily.
- hardwiring — a fixed connection between electrical and electronic components and devices by means of wires (as distinguished from a wireless connection).
- harm's way — danger; a dangerous situation: to get out of harm's way during a storm.
- harmsworth — Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe, 1865–1922, English journalist, publisher, and politician.
- hashbrowns — Alternative spelling of hash browns.
- hate-watch — to watch (a TV show, movie, video, actor, etc.) that one professes to dislike, often with the intention to mock or criticize.
- hateworthy — Worthy of being hated, detestable, despicable.
- haulageway — a passageway by which coal, ore, etc., is hauled to the surface from an underground mine.
- have a cow — become angry or upset
- have a few — to consume several (or too many) alcoholic drinks
- hawfinches — Plural form of hawfinch.
- hawk's-eye — a dark-blue chatoyant quartz formed by the silicification of crocidolite, used for ornamental purposes. Compare tiger's-eye (def 1).
- hawksbills — Plural form of hawksbill.
- hawseholes — Plural form of hawsehole.
- hawsepipes — Plural form of hawsepipe.
- head wound — a wound to the head
- heads down — [Sun] Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also hack mode and larval stage, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers.
- headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headwaters — The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- healthwise — With regard to health.
- heartworms — Plural form of heartworm.
- heath wren — either of two ground-nesting warblers of southern Australia, Hylacola pyrrhopygia or H. cauta, noted for their song and their powers of mimicry
- heave down — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
- heavenward — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- hedgewitch — A modern witch who focuses on herbalism and shamanic experience.
- hellerwork — a form of deep tissue massage intended to release the build-up of physical and emotional traumas in the body
- helmswoman — The female equivalent of a helmsman.
- helmswomen — Plural form of helmswoman.
- henchwoman — Feminine of henchman.
- henchwomen — Plural form of henchwoman.
- herdswoman — The female equivalent of a herdsman.
- herdswomen — Plural form of herdswoman.
- herskowitz — Melville (Jean) 1895–1963, American anthropologist.
- high water — water at its greatest elevation, as in a river.
- high-flown — extravagant in aims, pretensions, etc.
- high-power — (of a rifle) of a sufficiently high muzzle velocity and using a heavy enough bullet to kill large game.