10-letter words starting with ha
- hard stuff — strongly addictive drugs.
- hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- 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 yards — a great deal of effort or hard work, esp in playing a sport
- hard-assed — tough and uncompromising
- hard-asset — denoting an asset with intrinsic value: diamonds and other hard-asset commodities.
- hard-bound — hardcover
- hard-coded — (jargon) (By analogy with "hard-wired") Said of a data value or behaviour written directly into a program, possibly in multiple places, where it cannot be easily modified. There are several alternatives, depending on how often the value is likely to change. It may be replaced with a compile-time constant, such as a C "#define" macro, in which case a change will still require recompilation; or it may be read at run time from a profile, resource (see de-rezz), or environment variable that a user can easily modify; or it may be read as part of the program's input data. To change something hard-coded requires recompilation (if using a compiled language of course) but, more seriously, it requires sufficient understanding of the implementation to be sure that the change will not introduce inconsistency and cause the program to fail. For example, "The line terminator is hard-coded as newline; who in their right mind would use anything else?" See magic number.
- hard-edged — realistic and uncompromising: a hard-edged documentary.
- hard-faced — cheeky
- hard-knock — beset with hardship.
- hard-liner — a person who adheres rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan.
- hard-nosed — hardheaded or tough; unsentimentally practical: a hard-nosed labor leader.
- hard-shell — Also, hard-shelled. having a firm, hard shell, as a crab in its normal state; not having recently molted.
- 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.
- hardbacked — (of a book) Having a solid binding; hardback.
- hardballer — (informal) One who exhibits hardball (tough or ruthless) behaviour.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- harden off — to accustom (a cultivated plant) or (of such a plant) to become accustomed to outdoor conditions by repeated exposure
- hardenable — to make hard or harder: to harden steel.
- hardenberg — Novalis.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- hardhanded — Forceful, excessive, draconian, or abusive.
- hardheaded — not easily moved or deceived; practical; shrewd.
- hardliners — Plural form of hardliner.
- hardnesses — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
- 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).
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- hargreaves — James, died 1778, English inventor of spinning machinery.
- harlequins — Plural form of harlequin.
- harm's way — danger; a dangerous situation: to get out of harm's way during a storm.
- harmattans — Plural form of harmattan.
- harmlessly — In a harmless manner.
- harmonical — Alternative form of harmonic.
- harmonicas — Plural form of harmonica.
- harmonicon — harmonica (def 1).
- harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmonised — Simple past tense and past participle of harmonise.
- harmoniser — (British spelling) alternative spelling of harmonizer.
- harmonises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harmonise.
- harmonists — Plural form of harmonist.
- harmoniums — Plural form of harmonium.
- harmonized — Add notes to (a melody) to produce harmony.
- harmonizer — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harmonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harmonize.
- harmsworth — Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe, 1865–1922, English journalist, publisher, and politician.
- harnessing — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).