10-letter words containing a, h, u, t
- ghastfully — in a ghastful manner
- goalmouths — Plural form of goalmouth.
- guess what — used to announce news
- guitarfish — any sharklike ray of the family Rhinobatidae, of warm seas, resembling a guitar in shape.
- habitaunce — a place where a person or an animal lives or resides
- habitually — of the nature of a habit; fixed by or resulting from habit: habitual courtesy.
- habituated — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
- habituates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of habituate.
- hadhramaut — a region along the S coast of the Arabian peninsula, in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
- haematuria — Alternative spelling of hematuria.
- haircutter — A barber.
- half-stuff — (in a manufacturing process) any material half formed, especially partly prepared pulp for making paper.
- half-truth — a statement that is only partly true, especially one intended to deceive, evade blame, or the like.
- halieutics — (literature) A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing.
- ham sth up — If actors or actresses ham it up, they exaggerate every emotion and gesture when they are acting, often deliberately because they think that the audience will be more amused.
- hammer out — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- hand cruft — (jargon) (After "hand craft") To write something by hand that would be better done automatically, e.g. writing assembly language instead of using a compiler (see hand hacking).
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- hang about — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hang it up — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hang tough — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hantavirus — any of several viruses of the family Bunyaviridae, spread chiefly by wild rodents, that cause acute respiratory illness, kidney failure, and other syndromes.
- happy dust — cocaine.
- happy-dust — cocaine.
- hard court — a tennis court having a concrete or asphalt surface.
- hard stuff — strongly addictive drugs.
- harthacnut — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hastefully — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hatshepsut — 1495–75 b.c, queen of Egypt.
- haua fteah — a cave site in Cyrenaica that has produced archaeological evidence of the longest sequence of human habitation in northern Africa, extending to about 80,000 years b.p.
- haughtiest — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- hauntingly — remaining in the consciousness; not quickly forgotten: haunting music; haunting memories.
- haustellum — (in certain crustaceans and insects) an organ or part of the proboscis adapted for sucking blood or plant juices.
- haustorium — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- haut monde — high society.
- head count — an inventory of people in a group taken by counting individuals.
- headhunted — Simple past tense and past participle of headhunt.
- headhunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- heartfully — In a heartful manner.
- hearth rug — A hearth rug is a rug which is put in front of a fireplace.
- hearthrugs — Plural form of hearthrug.
- heavy-duty — providing an unusual amount of power, durability, etc.: heavy-duty machinery; heavy-duty shoes.
- helianthus — any composite plant of the genus Helianthus, comprising the sunflowers.
- hephaestus — the ancient Greek god of fire, metalworking, and handicrafts, identified by the Romans with Vulcan.
- heptateuch — the first seven books of the Old Testament.
- heraclitus — ("the Obscure") c540–c470 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- hereabouts — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- heulandite — a white or transparent, colorless mineral of the zeolite family, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, CaAl 2 Si 7 O 18 ⋅6H 2 O, occurring in basic volcanic rocks in the form of crystals with a pearly luster.
- hindustani — a standard language and lingua franca of northern India based on a dialect of Western Hindi spoken around Delhi. Abbreviation: Hind. Compare Hindi (def 2), Urdu.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.