10-letter words containing a, c, h, y
- hepatocyte — a cell of the main tissue of the liver; liver cell.
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- heroically — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- heterarchy — (uncountable) The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.
- hexahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) hexahydroxy.
- hierocracy — rule or government by priests or ecclesiastics.
- hieromancy — divination through studying objects offered in sacrifice
- himyaritic — of or relating to the Himyarites and to the remains of their civilization.
- holy place — somewhere sacred
- hyacinthin — phenylacetaldehyde.
- hyacinthus — a youth loved but accidentally killed by Apollo: from the youth's blood sprang the hyacinth.
- hyaluronic — Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives.
- hybrid car — vehicle with combined power source
- hycanthone — A particular schistosomicide, a metabolite of lucanthone.
- hydra code — (humour, programming) Code that cannot be fixed because each time a bug is remove, two new bugs grow in its place. Named after the many-headed Hydra of Greek mythology.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydrically — in a hydric manner; in a manner using water or moisture
- hydrocoral — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
- hydrocrack — to crack (petroleum or the like) in the presence of hydrogen.
- hydromancy — divination by means of the motions or appearance of water.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- hygienical — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- hygrochasy — the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hylozoical — characterized by the theory that all matter possesses life or that life is an essential property of matter
- hyoscyamus — the dried leaves, with or without the tops, of the henbane, Hyoscyamus niger, containing the alkaloids hyoscyamine and scopolamine, used in medicine.
- hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- hyperbaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity greater than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hypobaric.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- hypermanic — pertaining to or affected by mania.
- hyperspace — a Euclidean space of dimension greater than three.
- hypersparc — (processor) The successor to the SuperSPARC processor, based on the SPARC ISA. The HyperSPARC has smaller caches than the SuperSPARC: 8kb on-chip and 256kb off-chip (compared with 36kb and 1Mb). The HyperSPARC's memory management is optimised for more efficient out-of-cache addressing which means quicker access to external (slower, cheaper) memory.
- hypnagogic — of or relating to drowsiness.
- hypoactive — Less than normally active.
- hypocapnia — (medicine) A state of reduced carbon dioxide in the blood.
- hypocausts — Plural form of hypocaust.
- hyporchema — a lively choral ode sung in ancient Greece in honor of Apollo or Dionysus.
- hypostatic — of or relating to a hypostasis; fundamental.
- hypotactic — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- hypoxaemic — Alternative form of hypoxemic.
- hysterical — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- ichinomiya — a city on central Honshu, in central Japan.
- iconomachy — opposition to the worship of images or icons
- inchoately — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.