14-letter words containing h, y, a
- water hyacinth — a floating aquatic plant, Eichornia crassipes, of tropical lakes and rivers, that grows so prolifically it often hinders the passage of boats.
- weatherability — the property of a material that permits it to endure or resist exposure to the weather.
- whaddayacallit — A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember.
- white mahogany — an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus acmenioides.
- whitewall tyre — a pneumatic tyre having white sidewalls
- wholeheartedly — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
- with an eye to — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- woolly mammoth — a large extinct elephant
- x short of a y — If you say that someone is, for example, several cards short of a full deck or one sandwich short of a picnic, you think they are stupid, foolish, or crazy.
- xenophobically — relating to or exhibiting fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.
- xerophytically — As a xerophyte.
- xylopyrography — the technique of making a picture or design on wood using a hot iron or another heated instrument
- xylotypography — a type of printing using wooden blocks
- yang chen ning — born 1922, Chinese physicist in the U.S.: Nobel prize 1957.
- yeddo hawthorn — a Japanese shrub, Raphiolepis umbellata, of the rose family, having leathery leaves and dense, hairy clusters of fragrant white flowers.
- zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus
- zygomatic arch — the bony arch at the outer border of the eye socket, formed by the union of the cheekbone and the zygomatic process of the temporal bone.