10-letter words containing h, y
- falkenhayn — Erich von [ey-rikh fuh n] /ˈeɪ rɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1922, German general of World War I.
- fetchingly — charming; captivating.
- feverishly — having fever.
- fiendishly — In a fiendish manner.
- filchingly — in a filching manner
- fish story — an exaggerated or incredible story: It was just another one of his fish stories.
- flight pay — a pay supplement allowed by the U.S. Air Force to certain crew members who attain a minimum flight time per month.
- flunkeyish — resembling a flunkey
- fluohydric — (chemistry) hydrofluoric.
- fly orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys insectifera, whose flowers resemble and attract certain wasps: found in wood margins and scrub on lime-rich soils
- flycatcher — any of numerous Old World birds of the family Muscicapidae, that feed on insects captured in the air.
- flyingfish — any of a family (Exocoetidae, order Atheriniformes) of chiefly warm-water, marine bony fishes with winglike pectoral fins that enable them to glide through the air
- flypitcher — a person who has a flypitch
- flyweights — Plural form of flyweight.
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- fort henry — Joseph, 1797–1878, U.S. physicist.
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- french way — cunnilingus or fellatio.
- french-fry — to fry in deep fat: to French-fry onion rings.
- full rhyme — rhyme in which the stressed vowels and all following consonants and vowels are identical, but the consonants preceding the rhyming vowels are different, as in chain, brain; soul, pole.
- galsworthy — John, 1867–1933, English novelist and dramatist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- gammopathy — a disorder of the immune system characterized by abnormally increased levels of immunoglobulins in the blood.
- gargoylish — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a gargoyle.
- gayfeather — Many of the plant of the genus Liatris, native to North America, including Mexico, east of the continental divide.
- geophysics — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- ghastfully — in a ghastful manner
- ghoulishly — In a ghoulish manner.
- gipsy moth — a European moth, Lymantria dispar, introduced into North America, where it is a serious pest of shade trees: family Lymantriidae (or Liparidae)
- glory bush — a shrub, Tibouchina urvilleana, native to Brazil, having showy purple flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- glory hole — Nautical. the quarters on a ship that are occupied by the stewards or stokers. lazaretto (def 3). any locker or enclosed space for loose gear.
- gloryholes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gloryhole.
- glycophyte — any plant that will only grow healthily in soils with a low content of sodium salts
- glyphosate — a compound, C 3 H 8 NO 5 P, used to kill a wide range of weeds.
- gnetophyte — Any of the plant division Gnetophyta, consisting of woody plants that differ from other gymnosperms in having vessel elements (which transport water within the plant) as found in flowering plants.
- go haywire — to behave or perform erratically
- gothically — In a gothic way.
- gramophony — the art, technique, or practice of recording sound on disc
- granophyre — a fine-grained or porphyritic granitic rock with a micrographic intergrowth of the minerals of the groundmass.
- graphalloy — a compound of graphite impregnated with Babbitt metal, bronze, copper, gold, etc., used as a low-friction material.
- graphicacy — the ability to understand and use maps, plans, symbols, etc
- graphology — the study of handwriting, especially when regarded as an expression of the writer's character, personality, abilities, etc.
- gray birch — a small, bushy birch, Betula populifolia, of stony or sandy areas of the eastern U.S., having grayish-white bark and triangular leaves.
- gray whale — a grayish-black whalebone whale, Eschrichtius robustus, of the North Pacific, growing to a length of 50 feet (15.2 meters): now rare.
- graywether — sarsen.
- grey heron — a large European heron, Ardea cinerea, with grey wings and back and a long black drooping crest
- grey whale — a large N Pacific whalebone whale, Eschrichtius glaucus, that is grey or black with white spots and patches: family Eschrichtidae
- greyheaded — having grey hair
- greyhounds — Plural form of greyhound.
- gynarchies — Plural form of gynarchy.
- gynephobia — an abnormal fear of women.