10-letter words containing e, y, t, o, h
- haplotypes — Plural form of haplotype.
- hateworthy — Worthy of being hated, detestable, despicable.
- heliolatry — worship of the sun.
- heliometry — The measurement of the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc.
- heliophyte — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
- heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
- hematocyst — a cyst containing blood.
- hematocyte — hemocyte.
- hematology — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- hemelytron — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
- hemizygote — an individual having only one of a given pair of genes.
- hemoptysis — the expectoration of blood or bloody mucus.
- heortology — the study of the history and significance of the feasts and seasons in the ecclesiastical calendar.
- hepatocyte — a cell of the main tissue of the liver; liver cell.
- hepatology — (medicine) The study or treatment of the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.
- herniotomy — correction of a hernia by a cutting procedure.
- hesitatory — Hesitating.
- 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.
- histiocyte — A stationary phagocytic cell present in connective tissue.
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- holystoned — Simple past tense and past participle of holystone.
- holystones — Plural form of holystone.
- home study — instruction in a subject given by mail and addressed to a student's home.
- homeopathy — the method of treating disease by drugs, given in minute doses, that would produce in a healthy person symptoms similar to those of the disease (opposed to allopathy).
- homeotypic — of or relating to the second division in meiosis.
- homostyled — (of a plant) having styles of the same form or length in all flowers.
- homozygote — an organism with identical pairs of genes with respect to any given pair of hereditary characters, and therefore breeding true for that character.
- honeyeater — An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar.
- honeymonth — a couple's honeymoon or their first month of marriage
- hootenanny — a social gathering or informal concert featuring folk singing and, sometimes, dancing.
- hycanthone — A particular schistosomicide, a metabolite of lucanthone.
- hydathodes — Plural form of hydathode.
- 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.