10-letter words containing i, r, h, y
- gynarchies — Plural form of gynarchy.
- habilatory — relating to clothes or dressed in clothes
- 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
- hardwarily — /hard-weir'*-lee/ In a way pertaining to hardware. "The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective "hardwary" is *not* traditionally used, though it has recently been reported from the U.K. See softwarily.
- heavy rain — torrential rainfall
- heliolatry — worship of the sun.
- heliometry — The measurement of the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc.
- heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
- hemikaryon — a haploid nucleus.
- henry viii — ("Defender of the Faith") 1491–1547, king of England 1509–47 (son of Henry VII).
- hereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- herniotomy — correction of a hernia by a cutting procedure.
- heroically — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- hesitatory — Hesitating.
- hexahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) hexahydroxy.
- hierocracy — rule or government by priests or ecclesiastics.
- hieroglyph — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- hierolatry — worship or veneration of saints or sacred things.
- hieromancy — divination through studying objects offered in sacrifice
- hieronymic — of or relating to St. Jerome.
- hieronymus — Eusebius [yoo-see-bee-uh s] /yuˈsi bi əs/ (Show IPA), Jerome, Saint.
- hierophany — A physical manifestation of the holy or sacred, serving as a spiritual eidolon for emulation or worship.
- high flyer — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
- high-flyer — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
- himyaritic — of or relating to the Himyarites and to the remains of their civilization.
- hippogryph — Alternative spelling of hippogriff.
- hirability — able to be hired; fit for hiring.
- hollywired — Siliwood
- holy grail — grail (def 1).
- honorarily — given for honor only, without the usual requirements, duties, privileges, emoluments, etc.: The university presented the new governor with an honorary degree.
- horrifying — to cause to feel horror; strike with horror: The accident horrified us all.
- 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.
- hydrastine — an alkaloid, C 21 H 21 NO 6 , that is extracted from the roots of goldenseal and forms prismatic crystals: used as an astringent and to inhibit uterine bleeding.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydrazides — Plural form of hydrazide.