10-letter words containing w
- 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.
- 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.