10-letter words containing e, r, y, t, h
- exhibitory — Exhibiting; publicly showing.
- eyecatcher — Something that catches the eye.
- eyes right — a command to troops to look right, esp as a salute when marching
- flycatcher — any of numerous Old World birds of the family Muscicapidae, that feed on insects captured in the air.
- flypitcher — a person who has a flypitch
- fort henry — Joseph, 1797–1878, U.S. physicist.
- gayfeather — Many of the plant of the genus Liatris, native to North America, including Mexico, east of the continental divide.
- graywether — sarsen.
- hair style — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- hairstyles — Plural form of hairstyle.
- hairy tare — Vicia hirsuta, a vetch plant of Eurasia and N Africa
- hateworthy — Worthy of being hated, detestable, despicable.
- hattersley — Roy (Sydney George), Baron Hattersley of Sparkbrook. born 1932, British Labour politician; deputy leader of the Labour Party (1983–92); shadow home secretary (1980–83; 1987–92)
- heartfully — In a heartful manner.
- heathberry — crowberry.
- heliolatry — worship of the sun.
- heliometry — The measurement of the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc.
- heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
- hemelytron — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
- hemelytrum — the anterior wing of some insects such as earwigs
- heortology — the study of the history and significance of the feasts and seasons in the ecclesiastical calendar.
- hereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- herniotomy — correction of a hernia by a cutting procedure.
- hesitatory — Hesitating.
- heterarchy — (uncountable) The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.
- heterocyst — one of the enlarged nitrogen-fixing cells occurring along the filaments in some blue-green algae.
- heterodoxy — heterodox state or quality.
- heterodyne — noting or pertaining to a method of changing the frequency of an incoming radio signal by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals.
- heterogamy — heterogamous state.
- heterogeny — the condition or state of being heterogenous
- heterogony — the alternation of dioecious and hermaphroditic individuals in successive generations, as in certain nematodes.
- heterology — Biology. the lack of correspondence of apparently similar organic structures as the result of unlike origins of constituent parts.
- heteronomy — the condition of being under the domination of an outside authority, either human or divine.
- heteronyms — Plural form of heteronym.
- hey presto — magician's conjuring words
- hierolatry — worship or veneration of saints or sacred things.
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- honeyeater — An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar.
- hurtlessly — harmlessly
- hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
- 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.
- hydrazoate — a salt of hydrazoic acid; azide.
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hydrolytes — a substance subjected to hydrolysis.
- hydrometer — an instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid, commonly consisting of a graduated tube weighted to float upright in the liquid whose specific gravity is being measured.
- hydrometry — (physics) The branch of hydrostatics dealing with the measurement of specific gravity using hydrometers.
- hydrophyte — a plant that grows in water or very moist ground; an aquatic plant.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- hydrotrope — (chemistry) A compound that solubilizes hydrophobic compounds in aqueous solutions.