10-letter words containing h, y, a
- arthrotomy — (medicine) The surgical incision of a joint.
- asphyxiant — causing asphyxia
- asphyxiate — If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
- assythment — the recompense or redress made for wrongs or damage committed
- asynchrony — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
- athermancy — an inability to transmit radiant heat or infrared radiation
- atrophying — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- authourity — Obsolete form of authority.
- autography — the writing of something in one's own handwriting; something handwritten
- autotrophy — (in certain plants and bacteria) the process of making food from inorganic substances, using photosynthesis
- auxotrophy — the inability to synthesize particular growth factors, due to mutational changes
- ayatollahs — Plural form of ayatollah.
- baby coach — a baby carriage.
- baby tooth — Your baby teeth are the first teeth that grow in your mouth, which later fall out and are replaced by a second set.
- babylonish — Babylonian.
- ballyhooed — a clamorous and vigorous attempt to win customers or advance any cause; blatant advertising or publicity.
- barysphere — centrosphere (def 2).
- bat chayil — (in some congregations) a ceremony of confirmation for a girl of at least Bat Mitzvah age
- bathymeter — An instrument used to measure the depth of water in oceans, seas, or lakes.
- bathymetry — measurement of the depth of an ocean or other large body of water
- bathyscaph — a submersible vessel having a flotation compartment with an observation capsule underneath, capable of reaching ocean depths of over 10 000 metres (about 5000 fathoms)
- bawdyhouse — a house of prostitution
- bay wreath — (In Greek and Roman times) a wreath of laurel leaves, worn by a victor
- belly-wash — any barely drinkable liquid or beverage, as inferior soda, beer, coffee, or soup.
- bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- boob happy — suffering from the mental strain caused by the difficulties of prison life
- brachyaxis — the shorter lateral axis of a monoclinic, orthorhombic, or triclinic crystal
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- brachylogy — a concise style in speech or writing
- brachyuran — any decapod crustacean of the group (formerly suborder) Brachyura, which includes the crabs
- buddh gaya — a town in NE India, in Bihar: site of the sacred bo tree under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha; pilgrimage centre. Pop: 30 883 (2001)
- by the way — You say by the way when you add something to what you are saying, especially something that you have just thought of.
- cacography — bad handwriting
- cacotrophy — malnutrition
- caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
- caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
- camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
- carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- cash money — cash, as distinguished from a check or money order.
- catchpenny — designed to have instant appeal, esp in order to sell quickly and easily without regard for quality
- cephalalgy — Dated form of cephalalgia.
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- chaetotaxy — the arrangement of bristles on the exoskeleton of an insect.
- chaffingly — in a rallying yet light-hearted manner
- chalcedony — a microcrystalline often greyish form of quartz with crystals arranged in parallel fibres: a gemstone. Formula: SiO2
- chalcidfly — any of numerous small flies of the family Chalcididae, often having bright metallic coloration, the larvae of which are chiefly parasitic on various stages of other insects.
- chalybeate — containing or impregnated with iron salts