9-letter words containing n, y, o
- heavy ion — the nucleus of a heavy element.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- hemolysin — a substance, as an antibody, that in cooperation with complement causes dissolution of red blood cells.
- heteronym — a word spelled the same as another but having a different sound and meaning, as lead (to conduct) and lead (a metal).
- hokeyness — Alternative form of hokiness.
- hol-unity — A verification tool for UNITY? Version 2.1. E-mail: Flemming Andersen <[email protected]>?
- hologynic — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in females (opposed to holandric).
- holy land — Palestine (def 1).
- holystone — a block of soft sandstone used in scrubbing the decks of a ship.
- homeyness — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
- homonymic — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air; a homophone (def 1).
- homophony — the quality or state of being homophonic.
- honey ant — any of several ants, especially of the genus Myrmecocystus, that feed on honeydew or nectar and store the excess juices in the bodies of certain worker ants.
- honey bun — Also called sticky bun. a sweet spiral-shaped bun, usually with cinnamon, raisins, and nuts, coated with honey or butter and brown sugar.
- honey pot — any of a caste of workers in certain species of ants, that serve as living storehouses for a honeylike material later used by the whole colony
- honey-bee — any bee that collects and stores honey, especially Apis mellifera.
- honeybees — Plural form of honeybee.
- honeybird — Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.
- honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
- honeycomb — a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
- honeydews — Plural form of honeydew.
- honeyless — without any honey
- honeylike — Like honey in taste, texture, or appearance.
- honeymoon — a vacation or trip taken by a newly married couple.
- honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- honeywell — (company) A US company known for its mainframes and operating systems. The company's history is long and tortuous, with many mergers, acquisitions and name changes. A company formed on 1886-04-23 to make furnace regulators eventually merged in 1927 with another company formed in 1904 by a young plumbing and heating engineer named Mark Honeywell who was perfecting the heat generator. A 1955 joint venture with Raytheon Corp., called Datamatic Corporation, marked Honeywell's entry into the computer business. Their first computer was the D-1000. In 1960 Honeywell bought out Raytheon's interest and the name changed to Electronic Data Processing (EDP) then in 1963 it was officially renamed Honeywell Inc. In 1970 Honeywell merged its computer business with General Electric's to form Honeywell Information Systems. In 1986 a joint venture with the french company Bull and japanese NEC Corporation created Honeywell Bull. By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace. See also: brain-damaged.
- honeywort — a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.
- honkytonk — Alternative spelling of honky-tonk.
- honorably — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- honourary — Misspelling of honorary.
- hooraying — Present participle of hooray.
- hornyhead — species of fish
- hornywink — a lapwing
- hot money — funds transferred suddenly from one country to another chiefly to avoid depreciation in value or to take advantage of higher interest rates.
- houyhnhnm — (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of horses endowed with reason, who rule the Yahoos, a race of degraded, brutish creatures having human form.
- howlingly — producing or uttering a howling noise: a howling mob.
- hoydenish — a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy.
- hoydenism — The behaviour of a hoyden.
- huey long — Crawford Williamson [wil-yuh m-suh n] /ˈwɪl yəm sən/ (Show IPA), 1815–78, U.S. surgeon.
- hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
- hydantoin — a colorless, needlelike, crystalline compound, C 3 H 4 N 2 O 2 , used in the synthesis of pharmaceutical substances and resins.
- hydration — any of a class of compounds containing chemically combined water. In the case of some hydrates, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O, the water is loosely held and is easily lost on heating; in others, as sulfuric acid, SO 3 ⋅H 2 O, or H 2 SO 4 , it is strongly held as water of constitution.
- hydrazone — any of a class of compounds containing the group >C=NNH 2 .
- hydrogens — Plural form of hydrogen.
- hydrolant — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Atlantic Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydronaut — a person trained to work in deep-sea vessels for research and rescue purposes.
- hydronium — (inorganic chemistry) the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+.
- hydrovane — a vane on a seaplane conferring stability on water (a sponson) or facilitating take off (a hydrofoil)
- hydrozoan — any freshwater or marine coelenterate of the class Hydrozoa, including free-swimming or attached types, as the hydra, in which one developmental stage, either the polyp or medusa, is absent, and colonial types, as the Portuguese man-of-war, in which both medusa and polyp stages are present in a single colony.