10-letter words containing h, o, r, t, y
- exhibitory — Exhibiting; publicly showing.
- fish story — an exaggerated or incredible story: It was just another one of his fish stories.
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- fort henry — Joseph, 1797–1878, U.S. physicist.
- galsworthy — John, 1867–1933, English novelist and dramatist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- habilatory — relating to clothes or dressed in clothes
- hagiolatry — the worship of saints.
- half story — a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
- 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.
- heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
- hemelytron — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
- heortology — the study of the history and significance of the feasts and seasons in the ecclesiastical calendar.
- 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.
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- honeyeater — An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar.
- hydrazoate — a salt of hydrazoic acid; azide.
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hydrolytes — a substance subjected to hydrolysis.
- hydrolytic — producing, noting, or resulting in 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.
- hydropathy — the curing of disease by the internal and external use of water.
- hydrophyte — a plant that grows in water or very moist ground; an aquatic plant.
- hydrostats — Plural form of hydrostat.
- hydrotaxis — oriented movement toward or away from water.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- hydrotrope — (chemistry) A compound that solubilizes hydrophobic compounds in aqueous solutions.
- hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
- hyetometer — an instrument used to measure rainfall
- hygrometer — any instrument for measuring the water-vapor content of the atmosphere.
- hygrometry — the branch of physics that deals with the measurement of the humidity of air and gases.
- hygrophyte — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
- hylotropic — (of a substance) capable of undergoing a change in phase, as from a liquid to a gas, with no change in the original proportions of its constituents.
- hyoplastra — the second foremost pair of plastral bones in a turtle
- hypaethron — a part of a building or court which is open to the sky
- hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.