10-letter words containing h, y
- honeycombs — Plural form of honeycomb.
- honeyeater — An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar.
- honeyguide — any of a family (Indicatoridae) of small, heavily built, drab-colored piciform birds of Africa, Asia, and the East Indies: they are said to lead people or animals to bees' nests in order to eat the grubs and wax discarded by the people, etc. when they take the honeycombs
- honeymonth — a couple's honeymoon or their first month of marriage
- honeymoons — Plural form of honeymoon.
- honky-tonk — a cheap, noisy, and garish nightclub or dance hall.
- honorarily — given for honor only, without the usual requirements, duties, privileges, emoluments, etc.: The university presented the new governor with an honorary degree.
- honourably — (British) In a honourable manner.
- hootenanny — a social gathering or informal concert featuring folk singing and, sometimes, dancing.
- hopelessly — In a way that shows or causes despair.
- hormonally — In a hormonal way.
- horn poppy — a European plant, Glaucium flavum, of the poppy family, having yellow flowers, naturalized along sandy shores in eastern North America.
- horny frog — horned frog.
- horography — the art of constructing time-keeping instruments such as watches and clocks
- horrifying — to cause to feel horror; strike with horror: The accident horrified us all.
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- housewifey — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a housewife.
- hoydenhood — the condition of a rude, ill-bred or boisterous and noisy girl or woman, or a tomboy
- hu yaobang — 1915–89, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party 1981–87.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- human body — the physical structure and material substance of a human being, consisting of many billions of cells as well as components outside of the cells: The average adult human body is 50–65% water.
- humblingly — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humbuggery — pretense; sham.
- humorously — characterized by humor; funny; comical: a humorous anecdote.
- humouredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) In the manner of a specified kind of humour. See good-humouredly, bad-humouredly, ill-humouredly.
- hump bluey — to carry one's bundle; tramp
- hunky-dory — about as well as one could wish or expect; satisfactory; fine; OK.
- hurlyburly — (archaic) A noisy and disorderly tumult and confusion, especially as of battle.
- hurtlessly — harmlessly
- hush money — a bribe to keep someone silent about something, especially to keep the receiver from exposing a scandal.
- hush puppy — a small, unsweetened cake or ball of cornmeal dough fried in deep fat.
- hy antigen — an antigen encoded by a gene on the Y (male) chromosome, active in the development of male structures.
- hyacinthin — phenylacetaldehyde.
- hyacinthus — a youth loved but accidentally killed by Apollo: from the youth's blood sprang the hyacinth.
- hyalinised — to become hyaline.
- hyalinized — to become hyaline.
- hyalograph — an instrument used in hyalography.
- hyalophane — a variety of orthoclase in which some of the potassium is replaced by barium.
- hyaloplasm — ground substance.
- hyaluronic — Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives.
- hybrid car — vehicle with combined power source
- hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
- hybridised — Simple past tense and past participle of hybridise.
- hybridized — Simple past tense and past participle of hybridize.
- hybridizer — One who hybridizes.
- hybridizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hybridize.
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- hycanthone — A particular schistosomicide, a metabolite of lucanthone.
- hydathodes — Plural form of hydathode.
- hydra code — (humour, programming) Code that cannot be fixed because each time a bug is remove, two new bugs grow in its place. Named after the many-headed Hydra of Greek mythology.