10-letter words containing h, y, s
- myasthenia — muscle weakness.
- myasthenic — Of, pertaining to, or suffering from myasthenia.
- myopathies — Plural form of myopathy.
- mysophilia — a pathological attraction to dirt or filth.
- mysophobia — a dread of dirt or filth.
- mysophobic — a dread of dirt or filth.
- mythicizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mythicize.
- mythmakers — Plural form of mythmaker.
- mythoclast — a destroyer or debunker of myths.
- nappy rash — If a baby has nappy rash, the skin under its nappy is red and sore.
- newsworthy — of sufficient interest to the public or a special audience to warrant press attention or coverage.
- nonstarchy — Alternative spelling of non-starchy.
- nosography — the systematic description of diseases.
- nostopathy — a fear of returning home, often observed in those who have been in institutions such as prison or hospital for a long time
- on the sly — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
- orthostyle — (of columns) erected in a straight row.
- osteopathy — a therapeutic system originally based upon the premise that manipulation of the muscles and bones to promote structural integrity could restore or preserve health: current osteopathic physicians use the diagnostic and therapeutic techniques of conventional medicine as well as manipulative measures.
- osteophyte — a small osseous excrescence or outgrowth on bone.
- overrashly — in an overrash manner
- oysterfish — the oyster toadfish. See under toadfish (def 1).
- paraphyses — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- paraphysis — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- pasigraphy — a system of writing intelligible to persons of all languages; a universal language
- petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
- phantastry — a display of flamboyance or extravagance
- pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- phenotypes — the observable constitution of an organism.
- philosophy — the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
- phosphoryl — a radical chemical consisting of phosphorus and oxygen, represented by the symbol pO
- phossy jaw — gangrenous condition of the lower jawbone
- photolyses — the chemical decomposition of materials under the influence of light.
- photolysis — the chemical decomposition of materials under the influence of light.
- photonasty — a nastic movement in response to a change in light intensity
- photostory — photo essay.
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physically — relating to the body or its appearance: He is not physically attractive.
- physicking — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- physiology — the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
- physiotype — the set of physical features that make a person or organism different from others.
- phytoplasm — protoplasm of a plant or plants.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
- playschool — preschool, nursery school
- pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
- polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polyhistor — a person of great and varied learning.