10-letter words containing h, a, y, r
- matriarchy — a family, society, community, or state governed by women.
- matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
- merchantry — (dated) The body of merchants taken collectively.
- metatheory — a theory devised to analyze a theory.
- methylator — A person, company of device that methylates (originally, one that produced methylated spirits).
- mimography — the representation of sign language in writing
- monography — A monograph.
- mother yaw — the initial lesion of yaws, occurring at the site of inoculation.
- moucharaby — a projecting second-storey window or balcony enclosed with latticework
- 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.
- myoatrophy — atrophy of muscle.
- myotherapy — A form of manual medicine focusing on the diagnosis, treatment and management of musculoskeletal pain.
- mythmakers — Plural form of mythmaker.
- nameworthy — worthy of or deserving a name
- nappy rash — If a baby has nappy rash, the skin under its nappy is red and sore.
- naprapathy — a system or method of treating disease that employs no medications but uses manipulation of muscles, joints, ligaments, etc., to stimulate the natural healing process.
- near rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- near-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- necrophagy — The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh.
- neuropathy — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- nomography — the art of or a treatise on drawing up laws.
- nonstarchy — Alternative spelling of non-starchy.
- nosography — the systematic description of diseases.
- o'flaherty — Liam [lee-uh m] /ˈli əm/ (Show IPA), 1896–1984, Irish novelist.
- ochlocracy — government by the mob; mob rule; mobocracy.
- ophiolatry — the worship of snakes.
- opotherapy — organotherapy.
- oropharynx — the part of the pharynx between the soft palate and the upper edge of the epiglottis.
- orthopraxy — correctness or orthodoxy of action or practice.
- over-happy — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
- overrashly — in an overrash manner
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- paraphyses — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- 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.
- parenchyma — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- 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.
- phantastry — a display of flamboyance or extravagance
- pharyngeal — of, relating to, or situated near the pharynx.
- pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
- phloem ray — a vascular ray extending into or located entirely within the secondary phloem.
- phoney war — A phoney war is when two opposing groups are openly hostile towards each other, as if they were at war, but there is no real fighting.
- phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- phylloxera — any of several plant lice of the genus Phylloxera, especially P. vitifoliae (grape phylloxera) which attacks the leaves and roots of grapevines.
- 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.