11-letter words containing r, e, h, y
- hammer away — If you hammer away at a task or activity, you work at it constantly and with great energy.
- handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
- hardly ever — rarely
- harness eye — the eyelet on a heddle or on harness cords. Compare mail2 (def 3).
- harney peak — a mountain in SW South Dakota: the highest peak in the Black Hills. 7242 feet (2207 meters).
- harpy eagle — a large, powerful eagle, Harpia harpyja, of tropical America: an endangered species.
- harvest fly — cicada
- head injury — wound to the head
- heartfeltly — In a heartfelt manner.
- heartlessly — unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel: heartless words; a heartless ruler.
- heavy cream — thick cream having a high percentage of butterfat.
- heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
- heavy water — water in which hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium, used chiefly as a coolant in nuclear reactors.
- hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
- hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- heliochromy — the process and practice of producing a photograph that reproduces the natural colours of the subject
- heliography — The scientific study of the sun.
- hematocryal — cold-blooded; poikilothermal.
- hemerythrin — a type of protein responsible for oxygen transportation in some marine invertebrates
- hemielytron — hemelytron.
- hemihydrate — a hydrate in which there are two molecules of the compound for each molecule of water.
- hemotherapy — therapy by means of blood, serum, or plasma transfusion.
- henry fonda — Henry, 1905–82, U.S. actor.
- henry's law — the principle that at a constant temperature the concentration of a gas dissolved in a fluid with which it does not combine chemically is almost directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas at the surface of the fluid.
- heresiology — the study of heresies.
- heretically — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- herky-jerky — progressing in a fitfully jerky or irregular manner: a herky-jerky home movie shown on an old projector.
- hermeticity — The condition of being hermetic (airtight).
- herpetology — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
- heterocarpy — the production of more than one kind of fruit in one plant.
- heterocercy — the condition or state of having a heterocercal tail
- heterocycle — (organic chemistry) A heterocyclic compound or ring.
- heterodoxly — In a heterodox manner.
- heterodyned — Simple past tense and past participle of heterodyne.
- heterolayer — Any of a series of thin layers of different materials in a semiconductor (or similar) device.
- heterolysis — The dissolution of cells by lysins or enzymes from different species.
- heterolytic — Of or pertaining to heterolysis.
- heterophemy — The use of one word or phrase when another is meant.
- heterophony — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
- heterophyte — a plant that secures its nutrition directly or indirectly from other organisms; a parasite or saprophyte.
- heterospory — the production of both microspores and megaspores.
- heterostyly — the condition in certain plants, such as primroses, of having styles of different lengths, each type of style in flowers on different plants, which promotes cross-pollination
- heterotypic — of or relating to the first or reductional division in meiosis.
- hexahydrate — a hydrate that contains six molecules of water, as magnesium chloride, MgCl 2 ⋅6H 2 O.
- hexahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing six hydroxyl groups.
- hexyl group — any of five univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 6 H 13 −.
- heyagashira — (sumo) the rikishi of highest rank in a particular heya.
- hicky-horse — a seesaw.
- hieroglyphs — Plural form of hieroglyph.