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15-letter words containing h, y, a

  • great white way — the theater district along Broadway, near Times Square in New York City.
  • great-heartedly — in a great-hearted manner
  • gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
  • hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
  • hair hygrometer — a hygrometer actuated by the changes in length of a strand of human hair brought about by changes in the relative humidity.
  • hale and hearty — in good health
  • hamersley range — a mountain range in N Western Australia: iron-ore deposits. Highest peak: 1236 m (4056 ft)
  • hard mint candy — a hardened mint-flavoured sweet
  • hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
  • hardy perennial — a plant that lasts three seasons or more and that can withstand freezing temperatures
  • has had its day — If you say that something has had its day, you mean that the period during which it was most successful or popular has now passed.
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • hautes-pyrenees — a department in SW France. 1751 sq. mi. (4535 sq. km). Capital: Tarbes.
  • have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against
  • have a good day — pleasantry
  • have a nice day — pleasantry
  • have a way with — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • have an eye for — 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.
  • have itchy feet — to be restless; have a desire to travel
  • hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
  • hazard analysis — risk assessment
  • head-up display — an electronic display of data from instruments or other sources projected at eye level so that a driver or pilot sees it without looking away from the road or course. Abbreviation: HUD.
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
  • heaviside layer — E layer.
  • heavy artillery — guns and howitzers of large caliber.
  • heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
  • heavy-heartedly — in a heavy-hearted manner
  • heliometrically — By means of, or in terms of, heliometry.
  • hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
  • hematoporphyria — porphyria.
  • hematoporphyrin — a porphyrin made by treating haemoglobin with acid, used to treat cancer in photodynamic therapy
  • hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
  • hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
  • hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
  • hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
  • henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • heterocercality — the condition or state of having a heterocercal tail
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • heterosexuality — sexual feeling or behavior directed toward a person or persons of the opposite sex.
  • hexahydrothymol — menthol.
  • high and mighty — self-important, arrogant
  • high-and-mighty — haughty; arrogant.
  • highway robbery — robbery committed on a highway against travelers, as by a highwayman.
  • histochemically — In a histochemical manner.
  • holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
  • holiday clothes — the clothes worn and bought for travelling on holiday, such as swimwear, skiwear, or clothes for hot or cold weather, etc
  • holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
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