10-letter words containing w, h
- highbrowed — (of a person) highbrow; intellectual and cultured.
- higher law — an ethical or religious principle considered as taking precedence over the laws of society, and to which one may appeal in order to justify disobedience to a constitution or enacted law with which it conflicts.
- highwayman — (formerly) a holdup man, especially one on horseback, who robbed travelers along a public road.
- highwaymen — Plural form of highwayman.
- hillwalker — a person who goes hillwalking
- hit wicket — an instance of a batsman breaking the wicket with the bat or a part of the body while playing a stroke and so being out
- hitherward — hither.
- 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.
- hollow leg — an ability or inclination to drink large quantities of alcoholic beverages, especially without evident drunkenness.
- hollow out — make hollow, scoop out
- hollow sea — an ocean wave formation in which the rise from troughs to crests is very steep.
- hollowness — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- hollowware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
- hollywired — Siliwood
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- home owner — A home owner is a person who owns the house or flat that they live in.
- home-grown — grown or produced at home or in a particular region for local consumption: homegrown tomatoes.
- homebrewer — One who brews his or her own beer or other alcoholic beverage; one who homebrews.
- homeowners — Plural form of homeowner.
- homeworker — a person who works at home for pay, especially a pieceworker.
- hoodiecrow — A hooded crow, Corvus cornix.
- hoodwinked — to deceive or trick.
- hoodwinker — One who hoodwinks.
- hornblower — One who, or that which, blows a horn.
- horned owl — any large owl of the genus Bubo, having prominent ear tufts: family Strigidae
- horse show — a competitive display of the capabilities and qualities of horses and their riders or handlers, usually held as an annual event.
- horse-whip — a whip for controlling horses.
- horsedrawn — Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.
- horsepower — a foot-pound-second unit of power, equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second, or 745.7 watts.
- horsewhips — Plural form of horsewhip.
- horsewoman — a woman who rides on horseback.
- horsewomen — Plural form of horsewoman.
- hot switch — a rapid transfer from one point of origin to another during a broadcast.
- hot-walker — a person whose job is walking racehorses after races, workouts, etc. to allow them to cool off gradually
- hotel work — any of various jobs required in a hotel, such as receptionists, waiters, etc
- house crow — a black and gray crow, Corvus splendens, of India.
- house wine — a wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- house wren — a common American wren, Troglodytes aedon, that nests around houses.
- housewares — (North America) Domestic utensils, especially for the kitchen.
- housewifey — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a housewife.
- housewives — Plural form of housewife.
- how's that — If you say 'How's that?' to someone, you are asking whether something is acceptable or satisfactory.
- howsomever — in whatever manner, although
- hume's law — the philosophical doctrine that an evaluative statement cannot be derived from purely factual premises, often formulated as: one can't derive an "ought" from an "is"
- huntiegowk — a fool's errand or a person sent on an April fool's errand
- huntswoman — Feminine form of huntsman.
- huntswomen — Plural form of huntswoman.
- hurlbarrow — a wheelbarrow
- hydropower — hydroelectric power.
- hyperaware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.