10-letter words containing l, y, e, h, o
- heortology — the study of the history and significance of the feasts and seasons in the ecclesiastical calendar.
- hepatology — (medicine) The study or treatment of the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.
- heroically — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- heterology — Biology. the lack of correspondence of apparently similar organic structures as the result of unlike origins of constituent parts.
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- hidey hole — a nook or cranny used as a hiding place.
- hidey-hole — a nook or cranny used as a hiding place.
- 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.
- hollywired — Siliwood
- holoenzyme — an enzyme complete in both its apoenzyme and coenzyme components.
- holy bible — Bible (def 1).
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- holy moses — expressing surprise or shock
- holy place — somewhere sacred
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- holystoned — Simple past tense and past participle of holystone.
- holystones — Plural form of holystone.
- homostyled — (of a plant) having styles of the same form or length in all flowers.
- hopelessly — In a way that shows or causes despair.
- humouredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) In the manner of a specified kind of humour. See good-humouredly, bad-humouredly, ill-humouredly.
- hyalophane — a variety of orthoclase in which some of the potassium is replaced by barium.
- hydroceles — Plural form of hydrocele.
- hydrolases — Plural form of hydrolase.
- hydrolized — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrolize.
- hydrolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrolyse.
- hydrolyses — chemical decomposition in which a compound is split into other compounds by reacting with water.
- hydrolytes — a substance subjected to hydrolysis.
- hydrolyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrolyze.
- hydrolyzes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrolyze.
- hydrophile — (chemistry) Any hydrophilic substance.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hylotheism — any philosophical doctrine identifying a god or gods with matter.
- hylotheist — an adherent of hylotheism
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hyperboles — Plural form of hyperbole.
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- hyperploid — having a chromosome number that is greater than but not a multiple of the diploid number.
- hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypohalite — (chemistry) any salt of a hypohalous acid, having a general formula M(OX)n.
- hypomotile — Less than usually motile.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- inchoately — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- john tyler — John, 1790–1862, 10th president of the U.S. 1841–45.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- leiotrichy — the condition of having straight hair