15-letter words containing h, a, n, y, o
- dionysius thrax — c100 b.c, Greek grammarian.
- do your head in — If something or someone does your head in, they make you angry or frustrated.
- dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
- dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
- easy on the eye — pleasant to look at; attractive, esp sexually
- encephalography — Any of various techniques for recording the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
- endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
- endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
- factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
- faith community — a community of people sharing the same religious faith
- flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
- fly-on-the-wall — A fly-on-the-wall documentary is made by filming people as they do the things they normally do, rather than by interviewing them or asking them to talk directly to the camera.
- forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
- fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
- general holiday — a public holiday
- gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
- gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
- hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against
- have an eye for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
- hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
- hematoporphyrin — a porphyrin made by treating haemoglobin with acid, used to treat cancer in photodynamic therapy
- hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
- hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
- holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
- holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
- holocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having only crystalline components and no glass
- holyhead island — former name of Holy Island (def 2).
- honey tangerine — a citrus fruit with a deep-orange pulp, formed by crossing a tangerine and a sweet orange hybrid; Murcott
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- house physician — a house officer working in a medical as opposed to a surgical discipline
- how do you mean — If you say 'How do you mean?' to someone, you are asking them to explain or give more details of what they have just said.
- human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
- hyaluronic acid — a mucopolysaccharide serving as a viscous medium in the tissues of the body and as a lubricant in joints.
- hybrid antibody — a synthetic antibody that is able to combine with two different antigens
- hydrodynamicist — a specialist in hydrodynamics.
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
- hydroxycoumarin — (organic compound) Any of several isomeric hydroxy derivatives of coumarin, some of which are the basis of pharmaceuticals.
- hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
- hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
- hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hypnotisability — Alternative spelling of hypnotizability.
- hypnotizability — to put in the hypnotic state.