10-letter words containing han
- cruikshank — George. 1792–1878, English illustrator and caricaturist
- cynghanedd — a complex system of rhyme and alliteration used in Welsh verse
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- dobzhansky — Theodosius (Grigorievich) [gri-gawr-ee-uh-vich,, -gohr-] /grɪˈgɔr i ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈgoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1900–75, U.S. geneticist, born in Russia.
- doorhandle — A door handle.
- elder hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the nondealer, who has certain advantages in the play
- enchanters — Plural form of enchanter.
- enchanting — Delightfully charming or attractive.
- epiphanies — Plural form of epiphany.
- epiphanous — showing an epiphany
- ethanediol — (organic compound) ethylene glycol.
- euthanased — Simple past tense and past participle of euthanase.
- euthanasia — The painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma. The practice is illegal in most countries.
- euthanasic — Of, or pertaining to euthanasia.
- euthanised — Simple past tense and past participle of euthanise.
- euthanized — Simple past tense and past participle of euthanize.
- euthanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of euthanize.
- evenhanded — Fair and having no partiality.
- exchangers — Plural form of exchanger.
- exchanging — Present participle of exchange.
- fat chance — having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person.
- field hand — a person who works in the fields of a farm or plantation.
- first hand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
- first-hand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
- forehanded — forehand (def 1).
- foreshanks — Plural form of foreshank.
- freehanded — Openhanded; generous.
- gearchange — a change to a higher or lower gear
- greenshank — an Old World shore bird, Tringa nebularia, having green legs.
- ham-handed — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- han cities — a group of three cities in E central China (Hanyang, Hankow, and Wuchang), in SE Hubei at the confluence of the Han and Yangtze Rivers; united in 1950 to form the conurbation of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province
- han fei zu — died 233 bc, Chinese diplomat and philosopher of law
- hand basin — sink for washing hands
- hand brake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- hand cream — a cream that you put on your hands to make them feel softer and smoother
- 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 drill — a portable drill designed for two-handed operation.
- hand glass — a small mirror with a handle.
- hand it to — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand level — a leveling instrument held in the hand and used for approximate work at short distances.
- hand mower — a lawn mower that is pushed by hand (distinguished from power mower).
- hand organ — a portable barrel organ played by means of a crank turned by hand.
- hand press — a printing press requiring hand operation.
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hand tight — (of a setscrew, nut, etc.) as tight as it can be made by hand, without the aid of a tool.
- hand towel — small towel for drying the hands
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- hand-bound — (of books) bound by hand.