10-letter words containing p, h, l, y
- heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
- helplessly — unable to help oneself; weak or dependent: a helpless invalid.
- hepatology — (medicine) The study or treatment of the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- 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.
- hippolytus — Also, Hippolytos [hi-pol-i-tuh s, -tos] /hɪˈpɒl ɪ təs, -ˌtɒs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. the son of Theseus who was falsely accused by his stepmother, Phaedra, of raping her after he had rejected her advances and who was killed by Poseidon in response to the plea of Theseus.
- holography — the process or technique of making holograms.
- holophytic — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- holy place — somewhere sacred
- hopelessly — In a way that shows or causes despair.
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hump bluey — to carry one's bundle; tramp
- hyalograph — an instrument used in hyalography.
- hyalophane — a variety of orthoclase in which some of the potassium is replaced by barium.
- hyaloplasm — ground substance.
- hydrophile — (chemistry) Any hydrophilic substance.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hydropolyp — an individual animal in a colony of hydroids
- hylotropic — (of a substance) capable of undergoing a change in phase, as from a liquid to a gas, with no change in the original proportions of its constituents.
- hyoplastra — the second foremost pair of plastral bones in a turtle
- hypabyssal — (of an igneous rock) intermediate in texture between coarse-grained intrusive rocks and fine-grained extrusive rocks.
- hypaethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypalgesia — decreased sensitivity to pain (opposed to hyperalgesia).
- hype cycle — a term coined by Gartner to refer to the five phases he considers a new technology or product to go through from its launch to its stabilization on the market
- hyperalert — fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.
- hyperalgia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hyperboles — Plural form of hyperbole.
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- 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.
- hyperlapse — Lb photography A form of time-lapse photography where the camera is gradually moved across a long distance, such as down a highway, and a frame is captured at each new position.
- hyperlight — Faster than light speed.
- hyperlinks — Plural form of hyperlink.
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- hypermiler — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- hyperplane — a subspace of a vector space that has dimension one less than the dimension of the vector space.
- hyperploid — having a chromosome number that is greater than but not a multiple of the diploid number.
- hypersleep — (scifi) A form of suspended animation in which the body's functions are not merely slowed down but halted entirely.
- hyphenless — Without a hyphen.
- hypoblasts — Plural form of hypoblast.
- hypocotyls — Plural form of hypocotyl.
- 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.
- hypolimnia — Plural form of hypolimnion.
- hypolithic — growing beneath rocks.
- hypolydian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the diatonic scale from D to D
- hypomotile — Less than usually motile.
- hypoplasia — Pathology. abnormal deficiency of cells or structural elements.