10-letter words containing h, y, e, t, a
- phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
- polyhalite — a type or pink or red mineral
- rotary hoe — a cultivating implement consisting of a row of wheels each with many fingerlike prongs, pulled over the ground to break up the soil and destroy weeds.
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- sixth year — (in Scotland) the most senior class in a secondary school to which pupils, usually above the legal leaving age, may proceed to take sixth-year studies, retake or take additional Highers, etc
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- soothsayer — a person who professes to foretell events.
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
- starchedly — in a starched manner
- stealthily — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- strathspey — a slow Scottish dance in quadruple meter.
- sympathies — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
- sympathise — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- sympathize — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- synthetase — ligase.
- tachometry — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- tachymeter — any of several instruments for rapidly determining distances, directions, and differences of elevation.
- tachymetry — any of several instruments for rapidly determining distances, directions, and differences of elevation.
- tachypneic — excessively rapid respiration.
- tachypnoea — excessively rapid respiration.
- tachytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate faster than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- tail-heavy — noting or pertaining to a craft or vehicle that is too heavy in the rear, from overloading or poor design.
- telegraphy — the art or practice of constructing or operating telegraphs.
- tetraethyl — containing four ethyl groups.
- the galaxy — the spiral galaxy, approximately 100 000 light years in diameter, that contains the solar system about three fifths of the distance from its centre
- the litany — a form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations, each followed by an unvarying response
- the yakuza — a Japanese criminal organization involved in illegal gambling, extortion, gun-running, etc
- to the day — If it is a month or a year to the day since a particular thing happened, it is exactly a month or a year since it happened.
- tony hoare — Anthony Hoare
- tree hyrax — an arboreal hyrax of the genus Dendrohyrax, of central and southern Africa.
- trenchancy — incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting: trenchant wit.
- trierarchy — the office of a trierarch.
- trihydrate — a hydrate that contains three molecules of water, as potassium pyrophosphate, K 4 P 2 O 7 ⋅3H 2 O.
- tummy ache — an ache or pain in the stomach
- typhaceous — belonging to the family of flowering plants Typhaceae
- typothetae — printers collectively; used in the names of organized associations, as of master printers
- tyrrhenian — of or relating to an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily
- ultraheavy — extremely heavy
- unchastely — in an unchaste manner
- unfatherly — not fatherly; not characteristic or appropriate of a father
- unstealthy — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- white lady — a cocktail consisting of gin, Cointreau, and lemon juice
- wykehamist — a pupil or former pupil of Winchester College
- yacht race — a sailing race for yachts
- yarkant he — a river in NW China, flowing NE and joining the Aksu River to form the Tarim River. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- yottahertz — one septillion (10 24) hertz. Abbreviation: YHz.