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13-letter words containing h, y, a

  • typographical — of or relating to typography.
  • ultraphysical — extremely physical
  • unfashionably — in an unfashionable manner
  • unimpeachably — above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives.
  • unsympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • unthriftyhead — thriftlessness
  • velocity head — the velocity of a fluid expressed in terms of the head or static pressure required to produce that velocity. It equals ρν/2 where ρ is the density of the fluid and ν is the velocity. In hydrology the density of water can be written 1/G where G is the gravitational constant
  • vindhya range — a mountain range in central India: separates the Ganges basin from the Deccan, marking the limits of northern and peninsular India. Greatest height: 1113 m (3651 ft)
  • vinyl alcohol — an unstable liquid compound, C 2 H 4 O, found only in the form of its esters or as the polymer polyvinyl alcohol.
  • vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
  • warmheartedly — Alternative form of warm-heartedly.
  • wassily chair — a chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925, having a chromium-plated tubular steel frame over which strips of canvas or leather of varying widths are stretched to form the seat, back, and arms.
  • what have you — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
  • what you will — whatever you like
  • what's yours? — what would you like to drink?
  • white slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
  • whitefish bay — a city in SE Wisconsin, N of Milwaukee.
  • wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
  • whoremasterly — of or relating to the character of a whoremaster
  • whydah (bird) — any of several chiefly brown-and-black, African passerine birds (family Ploceidae): the male has long, drooping tail feathers during the breeding season
  • wild hyacinth — any of several plants having usually blue flowers resembling those of a hyacinth, as Camassia scilloides, of the central U.S., or Triteleia hyacinthina, of western North America.
  • with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
  • wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
  • woolly-headed — having hair of a woolly texture or appearance.
  • wrongheadedly — In a wrongheaded manner.
  • x-ray therapy — treatment of a disease using controlled quantities of x-rays.
  • xylographical — Xylographic.
  • yachting trip — a pleasure trip on a yacht
  • yachtsmanship — The ability or art of being adept at sailing a yacht.
  • yang shangkun — 1907–98, Chinese Communist leader: president 1988–99.
  • yellowhammers — Plural form of yellowhammer.
  • yellowthroats — Plural form of yellowthroat.
  • yitzhak rabin — Yitzhak [yits-khahk] /yɪtsˈxɑk/ (Show IPA), 1922–95, Israeli military and political leader: prime minister 1974–77 and 1992–95: Nobel Peace Prize 1994.
  • you know what — a thing or person that the speaker cannot or does not want to specify
  • yuan shih-kai — 1859–1916, president of China 1912–16.
  • zhao kuangyin — Chao K'uang-yin.
  • zygapophyseal — one of the four processes of a vertebra, occurring in pairs that interlock each vertebra with the vertebrae above and below.
  • zymotechnical — relating to the technology of fermentation
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