15-letter words containing h, e, n, l, y
- ethylenediamine — A viscous liquid used in making detergents and emulsifying agents.
- exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
- faint-heartedly — nervously
- fly honeysuckle — either of two honeysuckle shrubs, Lonicera canadensis, of eastern North America, or L. xylosteum, of Eurasia, having paired yellowish flowers tinged with red.
- 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.
- food technology — a branch of technology that is involved in the production of food
- forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
- french mulberry — a shrub, Callicarpa americana, of the verbena family, of the south-central U.S. and the West Indies, having violet-colored fruit and bluish flowers.
- fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
- gene technology — manipulation of DNA
- general holiday — a public holiday
- hale and hearty — in good health
- hamersley range — a mountain range in N Western Australia: iron-ore deposits. Highest peak: 1236 m (4056 ft)
- hardy perennial — a plant that lasts three seasons or more and that can withstand freezing temperatures
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
- heliocentricity — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
- hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
- hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
- hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
- hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heterogeneously — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
- hexylresorcinol — white or yellowish-white, needle-shaped crystals, C 12 H 18 O 2 , used chiefly as an antiseptic and for the expulsion of intestinal worms.
- high technology — any technology requiring the most sophisticated scientific equipment and advanced engineering techniques, as microelectronics, data processing, genetic engineering, or telecommunications (opposed to low technology).
- 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).
- hull efficiency — the ratio of the quantity of work required to tow a certain hull at a given speed to that required to drive it with a certain propeller: used in propeller design.
- hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
- hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
- hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
- hypercalcinuria — Condition of high levels of calcium in the urine as caused by high levels of bone resorption seen in osteoporosis or hyperthyroidism.
- hyperextensible — Capable of being stretched and extended.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hyperinsulinism — excessive insulin in the blood, resulting in hypoglycemia.
- hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
- hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hypersomnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
- hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
- hypolydian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from C to C, with the final on F.
- hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
- hypoventilation — Breathing at an abnormally slow rate, resulting in an increased amount of carbon dioxide in the blood.
- identical rhyme — rhyme created by the repetition of a word.