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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.
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