8-letter words containing h, y
- physalia — a marine invertebrate, often confused with a jellyfish, that has a painful sting
- physeter — a member of the Physeter genus of creatures that includes the sperm whale
- physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- physico- — physical, physical and
- physiol. — physiological
- physique — physical or bodily structure, appearance, or development: the physique of an athlete.
- phytonic — of or relating to a phyton
- phytosis — a disease which is caused by a vegetable parasite, for example a fungus
- pitahaya — any of several cacti of the genus Lemaireocereus and related genera, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, bearing edible fruit.
- pitchily — in a pitchy manner
- pith ray — medullary ray.
- play-doh — Play-Doh is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- plushily — in a plush manner
- plymouth — an island in the Leeward Islands, in the SE West Indies: a British crown colony. 39½ sq. mi. (102 sq. km). Capital: Plymouth.
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- polygoth — (language) A distributed language integrating classes with a parallel block structure, including multiprocedures and fragments.
- polymath — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- polyphon — a large clockwork or hand-operated music box
- porphyry — a very hard rock, anciently quarried in Egypt, having a dark, purplish-red groundmass containing small crystals of feldspar.
- prophecy — the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
- prophesy — to foretell or predict.
- prophyll — one of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow
- psych up — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
- psyching — psych1 .
- psychism — the belief in a universal soul; the attributing of souls to inanimate objects or phenomena
- psychist — a person who believes in psychic phenomena
- psychoid — the innate impetus to perform actions
- psychol. — psychological
- psychro- — cold
- puppyish — a young dog, especially one less than a year old.
- pygmyish — resembling a pygmy
- pyorrhea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
- pyrrhous — (of a person's complexion) ruddy or reddish
- pythonic — prophetic; oracular.
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- rezaiyeh — a city in NW Iran.
- rhapsody — Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
- rheology — the study of the deformation and flow of matter.
- rheopexy — the property exhibited by certain slow-gelling, thixotropic sols of gelling more rapidly when the containing vessel is shaken gently.
- rhubarby — similar to or tasting like rhubarb
- rhyolite — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
- rhythmic — cadenced; rhythmical.
- rohypnol — Rohypnol is a powerful drug that makes a person semi-conscious.
- rothesay — a town in the Strathclyde region, on Bute island, in SW Scotland: resort; ruins of 11th-century castle.
- rowdyish — like or characteristic of a rowdy.
- rubbishy — full of rubbish: a rubbishy cellar.
- salt hay — hay made up of salt grass, often used as fodder or as a mulch.
- sandyish — somewhat sandy
- sashayed — to glide, move, or proceed easily or nonchalantly: She just sashayed in as if she owned the place.
- say what — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.