10-letter words starting with h
- half-assed — insufficient or haphazard; not fully planned or developed.
- half-awake — waking; not sleeping.
- half-baked — insufficiently cooked.
- half-blind — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- half-blood — the relation between persons having only one common parent.
- half-board — demi-pension (def 1).
- half-bound — bound in half binding.
- half-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to the offspring of parents of different racial origin, especially the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European descent.
- half-caste — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of mixed racial or ethnic descent.
- half-crazy — somewhat crazy or insane
- half-crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- half-dazed — partly dazed or confused
- half-dozen — one half of a dozen; six.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- half-eaten — a past participle of eat.
- half-empty — (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
- half-grown — advanced in growth: a grown boy.
- half-hardy — having moderate resistance to cold temperatures.
- half-hitch — a knot or hitch made by forming a bight and passing the end of the rope around the standing part and through the bight.
- half-human — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- half-light — light that is about half its customary brightness, or that is partially dimmed or obscured: the half-light of early dawn; a room in half-light.
- half-liter — a unit of capacity equal to 500 cubic centimeters.
- half-meant — simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- half-miler — a half-mile race.
- half-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
- half-plane — the part of the plane on one side of a straight line of infinite length in the plane.
- half-plate — a size of plate measuring 61⁄2 × 41⁄4 inches
- half-pound — a unit of weight equal to 8 ounces avoirdupois (0.227 kilogram) or 6 ounces troy or apothecaries' weight (0.187 kilogram).
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- half-quire — 12 uniform sheets of paper.
- half-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- half-right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- half-round — semicircular in cross section, as a molding or piece of type.
- half-shaft — The half-shaft or half axle is the shaft in a vehicle along which power is sent from the final drive to one driven wheel or a pair of wheels.
- half-share — a share, as in profits, equal to one half.
- half-smile — a smile that is uncertain or short-lived
- half-staff — half-mast.
- half-stuff — (in a manufacturing process) any material half formed, especially partly prepared pulp for making paper.
- half-title — Also called bastard title. the first printed page of certain books, appearing after the end papers and before the title page and containing only the title of the book.
- half-track — a caterpillar tread that runs over and under the rear or driving wheels of a vehicle but is not connected with the forward wheels: used especially on military vehicles.
- half-truth — a statement that is only partly true, especially one intended to deceive, evade blame, or the like.
- half-white — of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- halfhourly — half-hour (def 3).
- halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
- halieutics — (literature) A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing.
- haligonian — of or relating to Halifax, Nova Scotia, or to Halifax, England.
- hall-jones — Sir William. 1851–1936, New Zealand statesman, born in England: prime minister of New Zealand (1906)
- hallandale — a city in SE Florida.
- halleluiah — an exclamation of “hallelujah!”.