10-letter words containing a, s, h, y
- headlessly — In a headless way.
- heavy spar — barite.
- hematocyst — a cyst containing blood.
- hesitantly — hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined.
- hesitatory — Hesitating.
- hexagynous — (of a plant) having six pistils
- hinayanist — a Buddhist of the Hinayana school.
- hla system — human leucocyte antigen system; a group of the most important antigens responsible for tissue compatibility, together with the genes that encode them. For tissue and organ transplantation to be successful there needs to be a minimum number of HLA differences between the donor's and recipient's tissue
- holy grass — any of several fragrant grasses of the genus Hierochloë, especially H. odorata, the vanilla grass.
- homoblasty — the state of being homoblastic
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- hyacinthus — a youth loved but accidentally killed by Apollo: from the youth's blood sprang the hyacinth.
- hyalinised — to become hyaline.
- hyaloplasm — ground substance.
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- hydathodes — Plural form of hydathode.
- hydrangeas — Plural form of hydrangea.
- hydrastine — an alkaloid, C 21 H 21 NO 6 , that is extracted from the roots of goldenseal and forms prismatic crystals: used as an astringent and to inhibit uterine bleeding.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydrazides — Plural form of hydrazide.
- hydrolases — Plural form of hydrolase.
- hydrosomal — of or relating to a hydrosome
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hydrostats — Plural form of hydrostat.
- hydrotaxis — oriented movement toward or away from water.
- hydrozoans — Plural form of hydrozoan.
- hygrochasy — the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hyoplastra — the second foremost pair of plastral bones in a turtle
- hyoscyamus — the dried leaves, with or without the tops, of the henbane, Hyoscyamus niger, containing the alkaloids hyoscyamine and scopolamine, used in medicine.
- hypabyssal — (of an igneous rock) intermediate in texture between coarse-grained intrusive rocks and fine-grained extrusive rocks.
- hypalgesia — decreased sensitivity to pain (opposed to hyperalgesia).
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
- hyperlapse — Lb photography A form of time-lapse photography where the camera is gradually moved across a long distance, such as down a highway, and a frame is captured at each new position.
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- 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.
- hyphenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hyphenate.
- hypoblasts — Plural form of hypoblast.
- hypocausts — Plural form of hypocaust.
- hypogeusia — a disease characterized by a decreased ability to taste and, sometimes, to smell: associated with a zinc deficiency
- hypomnesia — Deficiency of the memory.
- hypoplasia — Pathology. abnormal deficiency of cells or structural elements.
- hypostases — Metaphysics. something that stands under and supports; foundation. the underlying or essential part of anything as distinguished from attributes; substance, essence, or essential principle.
- hypostasis — Metaphysics. something that stands under and supports; foundation. the underlying or essential part of anything as distinguished from attributes; substance, essence, or essential principle.
- hypostatic — of or relating to a hypostasis; fundamental.
- hysterical — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.