10-letter words containing h, a, i, r, y
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypermania — excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze: The country has a mania for soccer.
- hypermanic — pertaining to or affected by mania.
- hypermedia — hypertext
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hypodorian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the ascending diatonic scale from A to A
- hypometria — Dysmetria in which the patient tends to undershoot the intended target.
- hypophoria — Physical misalignment of the two eyes so that one eye is set lower in the head than the other.
- hypopraxia — abnormally decreased activity; listlessness.
- hysterical — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- idiography — The study of individuals.
- in a hurry — rushing
- jamahiriya — an Arab socialist state
- kshatriyas — Plural form of kshatriya.
- labyrinths — Plural form of labyrinth.
- lathyritic — Of or pertaining to lathyrism.
- lexigraphy — (uncountable) The representation of words in writing.
- light year — Astronomy. the distance traversed by light in one mean solar year, about 5.88 trillion mi. (9.46 trillion km): used as a unit in measuring stellar distances. Abbreviation: lt-yr.
- light-year — Astronomy. the distance traversed by light in one mean solar year, about 5.88 trillion mi. (9.46 trillion km): used as a unit in measuring stellar distances. Abbreviation: lt-yr.
- lipography — unintentional omission in writing, as of a specific letter or syllable.
- litholatry — the worship of stones
- matriarchy — a family, society, community, or state governed by women.
- mimography — the representation of sign language in writing
- mycorrhiza — a symbiotic association of the mycelium of a fungus, especially a basidiomycete, with the roots of certain plants, in which the hyphae form a closely woven mass around the rootlets or penetrate the cells of the root.
- ophiolatry — the worship of snakes.
- paraphysis — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- parchingly — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- paronychia — inflammation of the folds of skin bordering a nail of a finger or toe, usually characterized by infection and pus formation; felon.
- party whip — whip (def 21).
- pasigraphy — a system of writing intelligible to persons of all languages; a universal language
- patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- playwright — a writer of plays; dramatist.
- polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
- preholiday — relating to the period before a holiday
- psychiatry — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- pyrophobia — an abnormal fear of fire.
- rachiotomy — (surgery) The surgical procedure of cutting, or making an incision in a vertebra.
- rhinophyma — a red-coloured bump or bumps on the nose which form as a result of enlarged sebaceous glands and rosacea
- rhythmical — periodic, as motion, or a drumbeat.
- right away — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- saccharify — to convert (starch) into sugar.