10-Letter Words Starting with H

All 304 ten-letter words that start with H

HA

• habitation15n. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being...
• habitually18adv. By habit; in a habitual manner.
• hacktivist22n. A person who engages in hacktivism.
• haematuria15n. UK standard spelling of hematuria.
• hairspring16n. A spring, made of a coil of fine wire, that is used to regulate the...
• hairstreak17n. Any of many butterflies, of the subfamily Theclinae, that have hairlike...
• hakenkreuz30n. The swastika that is used as a Nazi symbol.
• halberdier16n. A soldier armed with a halberd.
• hallelujah23interj. An exclamation used in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God.
• hallmarked20adj. Stamped with a hallmark.
• halophilic20adj. Of, or relating to a halophile; living and thriving in an environment...
• halophytic23adj. Growing well under salty conditions.
• halterneck19n. A single strap or material which runs from the front of the garment...
• hammerhead21n. The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also...
• hammerless17adj. Without a hammer.
• hammerlock23n. A hold, in wrestling, in which an opponent's arm is twisted up behind...
• hammermill19n. A machine for shredding or crushing aggregate material, consisting of a...
• handbasket20n. A basket with a handle.
• handcarved20adj. Carved by hand.
• handedness15n. A preference (usually innate) for using one hand rather than the other.
• handicraft19n. A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
• handpicked23adj. Picked by hand rather than by machinery.
• handscroll16n. A traditional Asian scroll that unfolds horizontally so that the reader...
• handsomely19adv. Regarding a person's action: in a handsome or good-looking manner.
• handspring17n. A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the...
• handwaving21adj. Waving the hands.
• hantavirus16n. Any virus of the genus Hantavirus, transmitted by aerosolized rodent...
• haplogroup18n. A group of closely related haplotypes.
• haranguing15n. The process of delivering a harangue.
• harassment15n. Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress.
• harborside16n. An area (especially a residential area) near a harbor (often in the...
• hardheaded19adj. Stubborn; wilful.
• harmlessly18adv. In a harmless manner.
• harmonious15adj. Showing accord in feeling or action.
• harmonized25adj. Brought into harmony.
• harmonizer24n. One who harmonizes or brings harmony.
• harnessing14n. The materials used to harness an animal.
• harpooning16n. The act of shooting with a harpoon.
• hartebeest15n. A species of grassland antelope, Alcelaphus buselaphus, native to parts...
• harvesting17n. The gathering of a mature crop; a harvest.
• harvestman18n. A male harvester; any harvester (person who works to gather in the...
• hasselback21v. To slice (usually a potato or other root vegetable) thinly while...
• hatemonger16n. A person who encourages hatred towards a person or group of people.
• hauntingly17adv. In a haunting manner.

HE

• headbanger17n. One who dances by violently shaking the head in time to the music.
• headedness15n. The state or quality of having a particular type of head (in various...
• headhunter17n. A person who practises headhunting, the taking and preserving of a...
• headmaster16n. A male headteacher.
• headphones19n. A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the...
• headstrong15adj. Determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want.
• headwaiter17n. A waiter who has a supervisory position over the other wait staff...
• headwaters17n. The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's...
• healthspan18n. The length of time in one's life where one is generally in good health.
• healthwise19adv. With regard to health.
• hearkening18n. The act of one who hearkens or listens.
• heartbreak19n. Overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or...
• heartening14adj. Cheerfully encouraging.
• hearthside17n. The area around the fireplace in the living-room of a family house.
• heartiness13n. The quality of being hearty.
• heartsease13n. A common European wild flower, Viola tricolor; the wild pansy.
• heartthrob18n. A heartbeat.
• heathenish19adj. Resembling a heathen.
• heathenism18n. The state of being, or behavior and thought, of heathens.
• heatseeker17n. A heat-seeking missile.
• heatshield17n. A system designed to protect what is behind it against heat.
• heavenward20adv. Toward heaven (place of the afterlife).
• hebdomadal19adj. Weekly, occurring once a week.
• hebephilia20n. A sexual preference for adolescent girls.
• hectically20adv. In a hectic manner.
• hectograph21n. An old printing machine that involved the transfer of an original...
• hectolitre15n. A unit of volume or capacity equivalent to 100 litres. Symbol: hL.
• hedonistic16adj. Devoted to pleasure.
• heedlessly17adv. In a heedless manner: with unawareness; without noticing; carelessly...
• hefeweizen28n. An unfiltered type of wheat beer.
• heightened18adj. Increased in intensity or concentration; elevated.
• helianthus16n. Any plant, of the genus Helianthus, having large flower heads with dark...
• helicoidal16adj. Synonym of helicoid.
• helicopter17n. An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating...
• heliograph19n. An apparatus for signalling by means of a moveable mirror which...
• heliopause15n. The boundary of heliosphere where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by...
• heliotrope15n. A plant with flowers which turn to face and follow the sun, such as...
• hellacious15adj. Horrible, awful, hellish, agonizing, difficult.
• hellbender16n. A giant salamander (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) of North America that...
• hellevator16n. A scary elevator; an elevator that takes one to a frightening location.
• hellraiser13n. A person who engages in wild, wanton behavior: one who raises hell.
• helmetless15adj. Without a helmet.
• helminthic20adj. Of or pertaining to worms; used especially of parasitic worms.
• helplessly18adv. Without protection or assistance.
• hemangioma18n. A usually benign vascular tumor derived from endothelial cells.
• hematocrit17n. The percentage (by volume) of packed red blood cells in a centrifuged...
• hematology19n. The scientific study of blood and blood-producing organs.
• hemiacetal17n. Any of a class of compounds of general formula R₁R₂C(OH)OR' (where R'...
• hemifacial20adj. Relating to, or affecting, one half of the face.
• hemiplegia18n. Total or partial inability to move one side of the body.
• hemiplegic20adj. Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with hemiplegia.
• hemisphere20n. Half of the celestial sphere, as divided by either the ecliptic or the...
• hemocyanin20n. A blue copper-containing respiratory pigment (a metalloprotein) found...
• hemoglobin18n. The iron-containing substance in red blood cells that transports oxygen...
• hemoptysis20n. Expectoration (coughing up) of blood from the respiratory system.
• hemorrhage19n. A heavy release of blood within or from the body.
• hemorrhoid19n. An engorged, dilated and easily broken varicosity in the perianal area...
• hemostasis15n. The regulated physiological process by which the body arrests bleeding...
• hemostatic17adj. Of or pertaining to hemostasis: stopping bleeding.
• hemothorax25n. A condition resulting from accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity.
• henceforth21adv. From now on; from this time on.
• henotheism18n. Belief in or worship of one deity without denying the existence of...
• hepatocyte20n. Any of the cells in the liver responsible for the metabolism of...
• hepatology19n. The study or treatment of the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.
• heptagonal16adj. Having seven angles and sides.
• heptathlon18n. An athletic contest comprising seven events; contested mostly by women...
• herbaceous17adj. Not woody, lacking lignified tissues.
• herbicidal18adj. Of, or relating to herbicides.
• hereabouts15adv. Near here.
• hereditary17adj. Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
• heresiarch18n. The founder of a heresy, or a major ecclesiastical proponent of such a...
• heretofore16adv. Before now, until now, up to the present time; from the beginning to...
• herniation13n. The formation of a hernia.
• heroically18adv. In a heroic manner, like a hero.
• herrenvolk20n. A master race, especially with reference to Nazi ideology.
• hesitantly16adv. With hesitation.
• hesitating14n. Hesitation.
• hesitation13n. An act of hesitating.
• hesperidin16n. A flavanone glycoside found in citrus fruit.
• heteroatom15n. Any atom which is not carbon or hydrogen.
• heterodoxy24n. The quality of being heterodox.
• heterodyne17adj. Of two oscillations: having two slightly different frequencies such...
• heuristics15n. The study of heuristic methods and principles.
• hexacopter24n. An unmanned multirotor rotorcraft having six rotors.
• hexahedral24adj. Having six plane surfaces.
• hexahedron24n. A polyhedron with six faces.
• hexavalent23adj. Having an atomic valence of 6.
• hexokinase24n. Any enzyme that catalyses the phosphorylation of a hexose.

HI

• hiccupping22n. The making of a hiccup noise.
• hiddenness15n. The state, property or quality of being hidden.
• hierarchal18adj. Relating to a hierarch.
• hierarchic20adj. Synonym of hierarchal (“pertaining to a hierarch (high-ranking...
• hieroglyph22n. An element (individual sign or glyph) of a hieroglyphic writing system.
• hierophant18n. An ancient Greek priest who interpreted sacred mysteries, especially...
• highfather23n. A respected, high-ranking male elder or leader; a patriarch; a...
• highlander18n. A person who inhabits the Scottish Highlands.
• highlights21n. Summary of an event, such as a sporting event, focussing on the most...
• highwayman25n. A person, usually mounted on horseback, who robbed travelers on public...
• hikikomori23n. A Japanese phenomenon whereby a person becomes a recluse from society...
• hindmargin17n. The hindmost edge, especially when it differs in some property from the...
• hinterland14n. The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
• hippodrome20n. A horse racing course.
• hippogriff24n. A mythical beast, half griffin and half horse, supposedly the offspring...
• histologic16adj. Of or pertaining to histology.
• historical15adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly)...
• histrionic15adj. Of or relating to actors or acting.
• hitchhiker25n. A person or thing that hitchhikes.

HO

• hoarseness13n. The quality of being hoarse, of having a dry harsh voice.
• hobbycraft25n. Handicraft produced as a hobby.
• hobnobbing20n. A friendly, informal session of talking or drinking.
• hodgepodge19n. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
• hogeschool19n. A Dutch polytechnic or college; a higher education institution of lower...
• holidaying18n. The taking of a holiday or vacation.
• hollowness16n. The state or quality of being hollow.
• holoenzyme27n. A haloenzyme.
• holography22n. A technique for recording, and then reconstructing, the amplitude and...
• holotropic17adj. Oriented or moving towards wholeness.
• homebrewed21adj. Brewed at home.
• homebrewer20n. One who brews his or her own beer or other alcoholic beverage; one who...
• homebuying21n. The purchase of a house.
• homecoming20n. The act or event of returning home.
• homecooked22adj. Cooked or prepared in a traditional manner as would be done at home.
• homelander16n. A person from one's homeland.
• homeliness15n. The property of being homely.
• homemaking22n. The management of a household considered as an occupation.
• homeopathy23n. A system of treating diseases with small amounts of substances which...
• homeschool20v. To educate children at home, that is, at a private domestic place, in...
• homescreen17n. The main or first interface shown in a graphical user interface.
• homeworker22n. A person who works from home.
• homiletics17n. The art of preaching (especially the application of rhetoric in...
• homoclinic19adj. Describing a path that starts and ends at the same point of equilibrium.
• homoerotic17adj. Arousing a homosexual desire.
• homogenate16n. Any material obtained by homogenization.
• homogenise16v. To make homogeneous, to blend or puree.
• homogenize25v. To make or treat as homogeneous or uniform.
• homogenous16adj. Having the same genetic structure; exhibiting homogeny.
• homologate16v. To confirm, ratify or approve, especially officially or legally.
• homologous16adj. In corresponding proportion.
• homonymous20adj. Having the same name as another (i.e., like a namesake).
• homophobia22n. Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals.
• homophobic24adj. Exhibiting homophobia; characteristic of homophobes.
• homophonic22adj. Having the same sound; being homophones.
• homoserine15n. The amino acid 2-amino-4-hydroxybutanoic acid that is an intermediate...
• homosexual22adj. Sexually and/or romantically attracted to members of the same sex, such...
• homosocial17adj. Pertaining to homosociality, to social interaction with the same sex.
• homothetic20adj. For a geometric figure that is the image of another figure under an...
• homozygote28n. A diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci.
• homozygous28adj. Of an organism in which both copies of a given gene have the same...
• homunculus17n. A small, artificially created human or human-like being.
• honeybunch23n. Honey, darling (term of endearment).
• honeyeater16n. Any of the many Australasian birds of the family Meliphagidae, which...
• honorarium15n. Compensation for services that do not have a predetermined value.
• honourable15adj. UK standard spelling of honorable.
• honourably18adv. In an honourable manner.
• hootenanny16n. An informal, festive performance by folk singers, often including...
• hopelessly18adv. In a manner showing no hope.
• horizontal22adj. Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon...
• hormonally18adv. In a hormonal way.
• hornblende16n. A green to black amphibole mineral, of complex structure, formed in the...
• hornblower18n. Someone or something that blows a horn.
• horologist14n. A person skilled in horology, particularly a person who makes or...
• horologium16n. Synonym of astronomical clock.
• horrendous14adj. Extremely bad; awful; terrible.
• horrifying20adj. Tending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific.
• horrorcore15n. A subgenre of hip-hop music with horror-themed lyrics and imagery.
• horseflesh19n. The flesh of a horse; horsemeat.
• horsepower18n. Power derived from the motion of a horse.
• horserider14n. Someone who rides a horse.
• horseshoes16n. The game played by throwing horseshoes toward a metal stake.
• horsetooth16n. A type of maize with kernels shaped like a horse's tooth, especially...
• horsewoman18n. A woman who is skilled with horses; a female equestrian.
• hospitable17adj. Cordial and generous towards guests.
• hospitably20adv. In a hospitable manner.
• hostelling14n. The practice of staying in youth hostels when on holiday, or travelling.
• hostessing14n. The work of a hostess.
• hotchpotch25n. The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division...
• housebound16adj. Restricted to one's home, as by physical infirmity.
• housebreak19v. To train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house...
• houseguest14n. A person who visits and stays at someone else's house, usually for one...
• houseplant15n. A plant that is grown indoors in places such as a house or office for...
• hoverboard19n. A levitating board that can be ridden in the manner of a surfboard or...
• hovercraft21n. A vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many...

HU

• hucklebuck27n. A rhythmic dance from the time just prior to rock and roll.
• hullabaloo15n. A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar.
• humaneness15n. The property of being humane.
• humanistic17adj. Of or pertaining to humanism.
• humanities15n. The study of language, literature, the arts, history, and philosophy...
• humblebrag20n. An ostensibly self-deprecating statement made to show off.
• humbleness17n. Modesty, humility; the property of being humble.
• humbucking24adj. Having a pair of coils or reverse polarity connected in series.
• humidified20adj. Modified by humidification.
• humidifier19n. A device that is used to increase the humidity of the air.
• humiliated16adj. Deprived of dignity or self-respect.
• humoresque24n. A composition that is playful in attitude and tone.
• humoristic17adj. Pertaining to a humorist or his or her style.
• humorously18adv. In a humorous manner; jocularly.
• humpbacked26adj. Having a hump on the back, either naturally or due to a medical...
• huntingtin14n. A protein whose polymorphism is associated with Huntington's disease.
• husbandman18n. A person who raises crops and tends animals; a farmer.

HY

• hyaluronan16n. The polysaccharide hyaluronic acid.
• hyaluronic18adj. Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives.
• hybridizer28n. One who hybridizes.
• hydraulics19n. The engineering science that deals with practical applications where...
• hydroflask24n. A device for carrying out polymerization under pressure.
• hydrograph23n. A graph of flow past a point in a river versus time.
• hydrologic20adj. Of or pertaining to hydrology.
• hydrolysis20n. A chemical process of decomposition involving the splitting of a bond...
• hydrolytic22adj. Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by hydrolysis.
• hydrometer19n. An instrument that floats in a liquid and measures its specific gravity...
• hydropathy25n. The therapeutic use of water, either internally or externally.
• hydrophone22n. A transducer that converts underwater sound waves into electrical...
• hydroplane19v. To skim the surface of a body of water while moving at high speed.
• hydroponic21adj. Of a plant; pertaining to or grown using hydroponics, a method of...
• hydropower22n. Hydroelectric power.
• hydroxamic28adj. Describing any of several classes of compounds derived from oxoacids by...
• hygrometer19n. An instrument that measures the humidity of the air or other gases...
• hygromycin24n. A broad-spectrum antibiotic obtained from a strain of Streptomyces...
• hyoscyamus23n. Any of the genus Hyoscyamus of henbanes.
• hypanthium23n. The bowl-shaped part of a flower on which the sepals, petals, and...
• hyperacute20adj. Very acute.
• hyperaware21adj. Extremely aware; much more alert to stimuli than normal.
• hyperbaric22adj. Of, relating to, or using greater than normal pressure (as of oxygen).
• hyperbolic22adj. Of or relating to hyperbole.
• hyperdrive22n. A spaceship engine that allows faster-than-light travel by entering...
• hyperfocal23adj. Describing the distance on which a camera must be focused in order to...
• hyperfocus23n. An intense form of mental concentration or visualization that focuses...
• hypergiant19n. A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a...
• hypergolic21adj. Igniting spontaneously upon contact with an oxidizer.
• hypergraph24n. A generalization of a graph, in which edges can connect any number of...
• hyperlapse20n. A form of time-lapse photography where the camera is gradually moved...
• hypermedia21n. The use of text, data, graphics, audio and video as elements of an...
• hyperplane20n. An n-dimensional generalization of a plane; an affine subspace of...
• hyperpower23n. An international hegemon, more powerful than a superpower.
• hyperscale20adj. Able to scale appropriately as increased demand is added to the system.
• hypersleep20n. A form of suspended animation in which the body's functions are not...
• hypersonic20adj. Of a speed, equal to, or greater than, or capable of achieving, five...
• hyperspace22n. An n-dimensional Euclidian space with n > 3.
• hyperspeed21n. Extremely high speed.
• hypertonia18n. An abnormal increase in tightness of muscle tone, common in cerebral...
• hypertonic20adj. Having a greater osmotic pressure than another.
• hypervisor21n. A firmware or software system that provides a virtual machine and...
• hyphenated22adj. Written with a hyphen.
• hypnagogia20n. A condition characterized by dreamlike auditory, visual, or tactile...
• hypnagogic22adj. That induces sleep; soporific, somniferous.
• hypnotized28adj. Under hypnosis.
• hypoactive23adj. Less than normally active.
• hypocretin20n. Synonym of orexin.
• hypocritic22adj. Synonym of hypocritical.
• hypodermic23adj. Of, or relating to the hypodermis, the layer beneath the dermis.
• hypodermis21n. An epidermal layer of cells that secretes an overlying chitinous...
• hypophysis26n. The pituitary gland.
• hypoplasia20n. Underdevelopment or incomplete development of a tissue or organ...
• hypostasis18n. The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as...
• hypostatic20adj. Pertaining to hypostasis, especially with reference to hypostatic union.
• hypotenuse18n. The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
• hypothesis21n. A tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or...
• hypothetic23adj. Based on hypothesis or theory; hypothetical.
• hysteresis16n. A property of a system such that an output value is not a strict...
• hysteretic18adj. Of or pertaining to hysteresis.
• hysterical18adj. Of, or arising from hysteria.

Questions about these words

How many ten-letter words that start with H are there?

Word.ws lists 304 ten-letter words that start with H, plus 1,737 rare ones.

What are common ten-letter words that start with H?

historical, highlights, helicopter, harassment, horizontal, headphones, hypothesis and homosexual.

Which of the ten-letter words that start with H has the highest letter score?

hakenkreuz scores 30 points with the standard letter tile values.

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