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13-letter words containing r, h, e, y

  • hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
  • holiday-maker — vacationer.
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • holy mackerel — astonishment
  • holyroodhouse — a royal palace in Edinburgh in Scotland: official residence of the Queen when in Scotland; begun in 1501 by James IV of Scotland; scene of the murder of David Rizzio in 1566
  • home delivery — delivery to one's home
  • home row keys — home keys
  • homopolymeric — relating to or made of homopolymers
  • honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
  • honey creeper — any of several small, usually brightly colored birds, related to the tanagers and wood warblers, of tropical and semitropical America.
  • honeycreepers — Plural form of honeycreeper.
  • honor society — (in a college, university, or secondary school) a student society that admits members on the basis of academic merit and, sometimes, worthwhile contributions in extracurricular activities.
  • hormic theory — a theory that holds all behavior to be purposive, whether conscious or unconscious.
  • horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
  • hourly worker — an employee who is paid an hourly rate rather than a fixed salary
  • howler monkey — Central American simian variety
  • hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
  • hybrid system — a way of working, organizing, or doing something that is composed of elements of two separate systems
  • hydrargillite — gibbsite.
  • hydrated lime — a soft, white, crystalline, very slightly water-soluble powder, Ca(OH) 2 , obtained by the action of water on lime: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements.
  • hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
  • hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
  • hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydrochloride — a salt, especially of an alkaloid, formed by the direct union of hydrochloric acid with an organic base that makes the organic constituent more soluble.
  • hydroelectric — pertaining to the generation and distribution of electricity derived from the energy of falling water or any other hydraulic source.
  • hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
  • hydrogen bomb — a bomb, more powerful than an atomic bomb, that derives its explosive energy from the thermonuclear fusion reaction of hydrogen isotopes.
  • hydrogen bond — a type of chemical bond in which a hydrogen atom that has a covalent link with one of the electronegative atoms (F, N, O) forms an electrostatic link with another electronegative atom in the same or another molecule.
  • hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.
  • hydrogenation — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
  • hydrogenizing — Present participle of hydrogenize.
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • hydromedusoid — a jellyfish or something resembling a jellyfish that lives in water
  • hydromorphone — A synthetic narcotic analgesic, (4,5 alpha-epoxy-3-hydroxy-17-methyl morphinan-6-one), similar to morphine and heroin. It is used for moderate to severe pain under the trade name Dilaudid.
  • hydronitrogen — a chemical compound containing only hydrogen and nitrogen.
  • hydroperoxide — any chemical compound having the general formula, ROOH, where R is an element or an organic group.
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
  • hydroxide ion — the anion OH−.
  • hydroxyketone — a ketone containing a hydroxyl group.
  • hydroxylamine — an unstable, weakly basic, crystalline compound, NH 3 O, used as a reducing agent, analytical reagent, and chemical intermediate.
  • hydroxymethyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent radical HO-CH2-.
  • hygrometrical — Alternative form of hygrometric.
  • hymenopterans — Plural form of hymenopteran.
  • hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
  • hymenorrhaphy — (medicine) Reconstructive surgery in which a woman's hymen is restored to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
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