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10-letter words containing h, y

  • gynophilic — Woman-loving.
  • gynophobia — Extreme or irrational fear of women or of the female.
  • gynophobic — relating to a dread or hatred of women
  • gynophores — Plural form of gynophore.
  • gypsophila — any plant belonging to the genus Gypsophila, of the pink family, native to Mediterranean regions, having small, panicled, pink or white flowers, as baby's breath.
  • gypsophile — any plant living or thriving in soil containing gypsum.
  • gypsy moth — a moth, Porthetria dispar, introduced into the U.S. from Europe, the larvae of which feed on the foliage of shade and other trees.
  • habilatory — relating to clothes or dressed in clothes
  • habitually — of the nature of a habit; fixed by or resulting from habit: habitual courtesy.
  • hackeysack — A non-competition sport in which a small sack, or
  • hackle fly — an artificial fly made with hackles, usually without wings.
  • hackneying — Present participle of hackney.
  • hackneyman — a man who rents out carriages and horses
  • hacky sack — (lowercase) a game in which a footbag is juggled with the feet.
  • haemolymph — the blood-like fluid of invertebrates
  • haemolyses — Plural form of haemolysis.
  • haemolysin — Alternative spelling of hemolysin.
  • haemolysis — Alternative spelling of hemolysis.
  • haemolytic — of or relating to the disintegration of red blood cells
  • hagiocracy — government by a body of persons esteemed as holy.
  • hagiolatry — the worship of saints.
  • hair spray — a liquid in an aerosol or other spray container, for holding the hair in place.
  • hair style — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
  • hairstyles — Plural form of hairstyle.
  • hairy ball — (topology)   A result in topology stating that a continuous vector field on a sphere is always zero somewhere. The name comes from the fact that you can't flatten all the hair on a hairy ball, like a tennis ball, there will always be a tuft somewhere (where the tangential projection of the hair is zero). An immediate corollary to this theorem is that for any continuous map f of the sphere into itself there is a point x such that f(x)=x or f(x) is the antipode of x. Another corollary is that at any moment somewhere on the Earth there is no wind.
  • hairy frog — a W African frog, Astylosternus robustus, the males of which have glandular hairlike processes on the flanks
  • hairy tare — Vicia hirsuta, a vetch plant of Eurasia and N Africa
  • halcyonian — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
  • half rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
  • half story — a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
  • half-crazy — somewhat crazy or insane
  • half-empty — (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
  • half-hardy — having moderate resistance to cold temperatures.
  • half-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
  • halfhourly — half-hour (def 3).
  • halloysite — a refractory clay mineral similar in composition to kaolinite.
  • halophytes — Plural form of halophyte.
  • halophytic — Growing well under salty conditions.
  • hamadryads — Plural form of hamadryad.
  • hand-carry — to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons: The ambassador hand-carried a message from the president.
  • hand-spray — an attachment to a shower, sink unit, etc, that is not fixed in place but can instead be moved in order to aid washing
  • handsomely — in a handsome manner; pleasingly; successfully.
  • handy-andy — a handyman.
  • handy-pack — a pack of a product that is useful or convenient in some way, because, for example, it is easy to transport, or because it contains a variety of flavours, colours, etc
  • handywoman — Female equivalent of handyman.
  • handywomen — Plural form of handywoman.
  • hang heavy — to pass tediously; drag
  • hangingfly — a small, long-legged scorpionfly of the family Bittacidae, resembling the crane fly but having four wings rather than two and hanging from leaves or twigs by the front or middle legs while using the hind legs to seize prey, mostly small flies.
  • hanky-pank — unethical behavior; deceit: When the bank teller bought an expensive car and house, they suspected there might be some hanky-panky going on.
  • hanya holm — Hanya [hahn-ye] /ˌhɑn yɛ/ (Show IPA), 1895?–1992, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and teacher; born in Germany.
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