10-letter words containing e, y, c, h
- histiocyte — A stationary phagocytic cell present in connective tissue.
- hockey mom — a mother who spends much time driving her children to hockey rinks, watching their games, and encouraging their participation in the sport: Hockey moms are made of tough stuff.
- holy place — somewhere sacred
- homeotypic — of or relating to the second division in meiosis.
- honeybunch — honey (def 6, 7).
- honeycombs — Plural form of honeycomb.
- 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.
- hydroceles — Plural form of hydrocele.
- hydrochore — a plant that disperses seeds through water
- hydrogenic — (chemistry) hydrogen-like.
- hydroscope — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface 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.
- hygroscope — an instrument that indicates the approximate humidity of the air.
- hype cycle — a term coined by Gartner to refer to the five phases he considers a new technology or product to go through from its launch to its stabilization on the market
- 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
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
- hypercubes — Plural form of hypercube.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- 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.
- hypernymic — Of or pertaining to hypernyms.
- hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
- hyperpneic — characterized by unusually fast breathing
- hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
- 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.
- hypertonic — Physiology. of or relating to hypertonia.
- hypertoxic — of, pertaining to, affected with, or caused by a toxin or poison: a toxic condition.
- hypnogenic — of or relating to the induction of sleep
- hypoactive — Less than normally active.
- hypocenter — focus (def 5).
- hypocentre — (geology) The focus of an earthquake, directly under the epicentre.
- hypocretin — Either of the peptide hormones orexin.
- hypocrisie — Obsolete form of hypocrisy.
- hypocrites — Plural form of hypocrite.
- hypodermic — characterized by the introduction of medicine or drugs under the skin: hypodermic injection.
- hypoechoic — Of low echogenicity.
- hypometric — Smaller than normally measured.
- hyporchema — a lively choral ode sung in ancient Greece in honor of Apollo or Dionysus.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- hypothetic — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.
- hypoxaemic — Alternative form of hypoxemic.
- hysteretic — the lag in response exhibited by a body in reacting to changes in the forces, especially magnetic forces, affecting it. Compare magnetic hysteresis.