9-letter words containing h, y
- hastately — in a hastate manner
- hatchways — Plural form of hatchway.
- hatefully — In a hateful manner.
- haughtily — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- hawk-eyed — having very keen sight: a hawk-eyed guard.
- hawke bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the E coast of North Island, New Zealand.
- hawkishly — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- hawthorny — resembling or characterized by hawthorns
- hay fever — a type of allergic rhinitis affecting the mucous membranes of the eyes and respiratory tract, affecting susceptible persons usually during the summer, caused by pollen of ragweed and certain other plants.
- hay shock — a haycock.
- haycation — A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.
- haymakers — Plural form of haymaker.
- haymaking — The cutting of grass and subsequently curing it to make hay as fodder for animals.
- haymarket — a famous London market 1644–1830.
- haystacks — Plural form of haystack.
- healingly — in a healing manner, intended to heal
- healthily — possessing or enjoying good health or a sound and vigorous mentality: a healthy body; a healthy mind.
- heartedly — having a specified kind of heart (now used only in combination): hardhearted; sad-hearted.
- heathenry — The state of being heathen.
- heavy ion — the nucleus of a heavy element.
- heavy mud — a dense substance made of a mixture of the mineral barite and water that is thickened with polymers
- heavy oil — a hydrocarbon mixture, heavier than water, distilled from coal tar
- heavy-set — Someone who is heavy-set has a large solid body.
- hedgingly — So as to hedge; without making a firm commitment.
- hedyphane — a white or yellow mineral with elongated crystals similar to mimetite, chiefly found in Sweden
- heedfully — In a heedful manner.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- helically — pertaining to or having the form of a helix; spiral.
- heliology — the study of the sun
- heliotype — A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
- hellishly — In a hellish manner.
- helophyte — any perennial marsh plant that bears its overwintering buds in the mud below the surface
- helpfully — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- helvellyn — a mountain in NW England. 3118 feet (950 meters).
- hemelytra — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
- hemicycle — a semicircle.
- hemihedry — the quality or state of a crystal having hemihedral shape
- hemingway — Ernest (Miller) 1899–1961, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist: Nobel Prize 1954.
- hemocytes — Plural form of hemocyte.
- hemolymph — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
- hemolysin — a substance, as an antibody, that in cooperation with complement causes dissolution of red blood cells.
- hemolysis — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- hemolytic — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- hemolyzed — to subject (red blood cells) to hemolysis.
- hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
- hen party — a party or gathering for women only.
- hendiadys — a figure in which a complex idea is expressed by two words connected by a copulative conjunction: “to look with eyes and envy” instead of “with envious eyes.”.
- hennishly — in a hennish manner
- henry iii — 1017–56, king of Germany 1039–56 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1046–56 (son of Conrad II).