9-letter words containing h, y, a, e
- half-year — a period of 6 months
- halfpenny — a bronze coin of the United Kingdom, equal to half a penny: use phased out in 1984.
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- halysites — an extinct genus comprising the chain corals.
- hanefiyeh — (in the courtyard of a mosque) a fountain for ritual washing.
- hansberry — Lorraine, 1930–65, U.S. playwright.
- haplessly — In a hapless manner.
- haplotype — Genetics. a combination of closely linked DNA sequences on one chromosome that are often inherited together: By comparing haplotypes of a mother and father with those of a fetus, scientists can study how new genetic changes arise.
- happen by — chance upon
- happyness — Misspelling of happiness.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- hastately — in a hastate manner
- hatefully — In a hateful manner.
- hawk-eyed — having very keen sight: a hawk-eyed guard.
- hawke bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the E coast of North Island, New Zealand.
- hay fever — a type of allergic rhinitis affecting the mucous membranes of the eyes and respiratory tract, affecting susceptible persons usually during the summer, caused by pollen of ragweed and certain other plants.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.
- haymakers — Plural form of haymaker.
- haymarket — a famous London market 1644–1830.
- healingly — in a healing manner, intended to heal
- healthily — possessing or enjoying good health or a sound and vigorous mentality: a healthy body; a healthy mind.
- heartedly — having a specified kind of heart (now used only in combination): hardhearted; sad-hearted.
- heathenry — The state of being heathen.
- heavy ion — the nucleus of a heavy element.
- heavy mud — a dense substance made of a mixture of the mineral barite and water that is thickened with polymers
- heavy oil — a hydrocarbon mixture, heavier than water, distilled from coal tar
- heavy-set — Someone who is heavy-set has a large solid body.
- hedyphane — a white or yellow mineral with elongated crystals similar to mimetite, chiefly found in Sweden
- helically — pertaining to or having the form of a helix; spiral.
- hemelytra — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
- hemingway — Ernest (Miller) 1899–1961, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist: Nobel Prize 1954.
- hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
- hen party — a party or gathering for women only.
- hendiadys — a figure in which a complex idea is expressed by two words connected by a copulative conjunction: “to look with eyes and envy” instead of “with envious eyes.”.
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- heptapody — a verse with seven metrical feet
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- heritably — In a heritable manner.
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesychast — one of a sect of mystics that originated in the 14th century among the monks on Mt. Athos, Greece.
- hexastyle — having six columns, as a portico or the facade of a classical temple.
- heyerdahl — Thor [too r] /tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1914–2002, Norwegian ethnologist and author.
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- hierarchy — any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
- himyarite — one of an ancient people of southern Arabia speaking a Semitic language.
- holidayed — Simple past tense and past participle of holiday.
- holidayer — vacationer.