10-letter words containing he
- half shell — either of the halves of a double-shelled creature, as of an oyster, clam, or other bivalve mollusk.
- hammerhead — the part of a hammer designed for striking.
- hang heavy — to pass tediously; drag
- hard wheat — a wheat, as durum wheat, characterized by flinty, dark-colored kernels that yield a flour used in making bread, macaroni, etc.
- hard-shell — Also, hard-shelled. having a firm, hard shell, as a crab in its normal state; not having recently molted.
- hardheaded — not easily moved or deceived; practical; shrewd.
- harrumphed — to clear the throat audibly in a self-important manner: The professor harrumphed good-naturedly.
- harrumpher — (informal) One who complains or moralizes.
- hatcheling — Present participle of hatchel.
- hatchelled — Simple past tense and past participle of hatchel.
- hatcheries — Plural form of hatchery.
- hatchetman — A professional killer or gunman.
- hatchetmen — Plural form of hatchetman (alternative spelling of hatchet men).
- hate sheet — a newspaper or other publication that consistently expresses biased hatred toward some national, racial, religious, or other group.
- hatshepsut — 1495–75 b.c, queen of Egypt.
- hawfinches — Plural form of hawfinch.
- head clerk — a supervisor; manager
- head count — an inventory of people in a group taken by counting individuals.
- head louse — See under louse (def 1).
- head money — a tax of so much per head or person.
- head nurse — the chief nurse in a hospital; matron
- head rhyme — beginning rhyme.
- head right — Law. a beneficial interest for each member of an Indian tribe in the tribal trust fund accruing from the lease of tribal oil, gas, and mineral rights, the sale of tribal lands, etc.
- head start — an advantage given or acquired in any competition, endeavor, etc., as allowing one or more competitors in a race to start before the others.
- head table — the principal table, as at a banquet or conference, often at the head of a row of tables or raised on a dais, where the presiding officer, chief speaker, guests of honor, etc., are seated.
- head voice — the high register of the human voice, in which the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head
- head wound — a wound to the head
- head-first — If you move head-first in a particular direction, your head is the part of your body that is furthest forward as you are moving.
- head-right — Law. a beneficial interest for each member of an Indian tribe in the tribal trust fund accruing from the lease of tribal oil, gas, and mineral rights, the sale of tribal lands, etc.
- headbanged — Simple past tense and past participle of headbang.
- headbanger — metalhead.
- headboards — Plural form of headboard.
- headcheese — a seasoned loaf made of the head meat, sometimes including the tongue or brains, of a calf or pig and molded in the natural aspic of the head.
- headcollar — A bitless headpiece for leading or tying up a horse.
- headedness — The state or quality of having a particular type of head.
- headframes — Plural form of headframe.
- headhunted — Simple past tense and past participle of headhunt.
- headhunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- headlessly — In a headless way.
- headlights — a light or lamp, usually equipped with a reflector, on the front of an automobile, locomotive, etc.
- headliners — Plural form of headliner.
- headlining — a heading in a newspaper for any written material, sometimes for an illustration, to indicate subject matter, set in larger type than that of the copy and containing one or more words and lines and often several banks.
- headmaster — the person in charge of a private school.
- headphones — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
- headpieces — Plural form of headpiece.
- 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.
- headsheets — the sheet of a foresail; foresheet
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- headsquare — a scarf worn on the head
- headstalls — (British) Plural form of headstall.