11-letter words containing h, y, a, l
- filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
- fishability — The quality or degree of being fishable.
- flash harry — a man who likes to dress and behave ostentatiously
- flexography — a relief printing technique similar to letterpress that employs rubber or soft plastic plates, a simple inking system, and fast-drying inks.
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- foolhardily — In a foolhardy manner.
- furaldehyde — either of two aldehydes derived from furan, esp 2-furaldehyde
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- glycyrrhiza — Any legume (such as liquorice) of the genus [Glycyrrhiza]].
- glyptograph — an engraved or carved design, as on a gem.
- glyptotheca — a space devoted to sculpture
- graphically — giving a clear and effective picture; vivid: a graphic account of an earthquake.
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gymnorhinal — (of a bird) having the nostrils exposed, not covered by feathers.
- hadley cell — an atmospheric convection pattern in which a current of hot equatorial air rises, divides, cools as it moves toward the poles, descends, and warms as it returns to the equator
- haematology — (medicine) The scientific study of blood and blood-producing organs.
- hairstyling — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
- hairstylist — A person who cuts and styles people's hair professionally.
- half an eye — a modicum of perceptiveness
- half volley — tennis: returning ball after it bounces
- half-volley — (in tennis, racquets, etc.) a stroke in which the ball is hit the moment it bounces from the ground.
- half-yearly — Half-yearly means happening in the middle of a calendar year or a financial year.
- haltom city — a city in N Texas, near Fort Worth.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- hangability — the ability to be hanged
- haphazardly — in a haphazard manner; at random.
- haplography — the accidental omission of a letter or letter group that should be repeated in writing, as in Missippi for Mississippi.
- harassingly — in a harassing manner
- hardly ever — rarely
- harpy eagle — a large, powerful eagle, Harpia harpyja, of tropical America: an endangered species.
- harrowingly — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- harvest fly — cicada
- hazardously — In a hazardous manner.
- healthfully — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- heartfeltly — In a heartfelt manner.
- heartlessly — unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel: heartless words; a heartless ruler.
- heavy metal — big iron
- heavy-laden — carrying a heavy load; heavily laden: a heavy-laden cart.
- hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
- heliography — The scientific study of the sun.
- hell to pay — serious consequences, as of a foolish action
- hemanalysis — an analysis, especially of the chemical constituents, of the blood.
- hematocryal — cold-blooded; poikilothermal.
- hematolysis — hemolysis.
- hematoxylin — a colorless or pale-yellow, crystalline compound, C 16 H 14 O 6 ·3H 2 O, the coloring material of logwood: used as a mordant dye and as an indicator.
- henry's law — the principle that at a constant temperature the concentration of a gas dissolved in a fluid with which it does not combine chemically is almost directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas at the surface of the fluid.
- heretically — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
- heterolayer — Any of a series of thin layers of different materials in a semiconductor (or similar) device.