9-letter words containing s, a, h, y
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- himalayas — the, a mountain range extending about 1500 miles (2400 km) along the border between India and Tibet. Highest peak, Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet (8848 meters).
- hold sway — have influence
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- homestays — Plural form of homestay.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hyacinths — Plural form of hyacinth.
- hydracids — Plural form of hydracid.
- hydranths — Plural form of hydranth.
- hydrastis — goldenseal (def 2).
- hydraulus — a pipe organ of ancient Greece and Rome using water pressure to maintain the air supply.
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hydrosoma — hydrosome.
- hydrostat — an electrical device for detecting the presence of water, as from overflow or leakage.
- hygrostat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hymeneals — (plurale tantum) Nuptials.
- hypaspist — a shield bearer, especially one of a special unit of light infantry in the Macedonian army.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- hypobasis — the lowermost distinctively treated part of a base.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- hyponasty — increased growth along the lower surface of a plant or plant part, causing it to bend upward.
- hypopneas — Plural form of hypopnea.
- hypospray — (science fiction) A kind of jet injector.
- hypostoma — Hypostome.
- hypotaxis — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- kaffiyehs — Plural form of kaffiyeh.
- katyushas — Plural form of katyusha.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- knavishly — In a knavish manner.
- koshigaya — a city in central Honshu, Japan, a Tokyo suburb.
- kshatriya — a member of the Hindu royal and warrior class above the Vaisyas and below the Brahmans.
- ladysmith — a city in W Natal, in the E Republic of South Africa: besieged by Boers 1889–1900.
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- lymphomas — Plural form of lymphoma.
- mannishly — In a mannish manner.
- mantyhose — a one-piece clinging garment covering the body from the waist to the feet, worn by men
- martyrish — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- mawkishly — In a mawkish manner.
- mayorship — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- media-shy — reluctant to appear in the mass media
- methylase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyse methylation
- mischancy — unlucky; unfortunate