10-letter words containing s, h, y
- hair spray — a liquid in an aerosol or other spray container, for holding the hair in place.
- hair style — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- hairstyles — Plural form of hairstyle.
- half story — a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
- halloysite — a refractory clay mineral similar in composition to kaolinite.
- halophytes — Plural form of halophyte.
- hamadryads — Plural form of hamadryad.
- hand-spray — an attachment to a shower, sink unit, etc, that is not fixed in place but can instead be moved in order to aid washing
- handsomely — in a handsome manner; pleasingly; successfully.
- haplotypes — Plural form of haplotype.
- happy dust — cocaine.
- happy-dust — cocaine.
- harassedly — in a harassed manner
- hard yards — a great deal of effort or hard work, esp in playing a sport
- harm's way — danger; a dangerous situation: to get out of harm's way during a storm.
- harmlessly — In a harmless manner.
- hary janos — an opera (1926) by Zoltán Kodály.
- hastefully — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hattersley — Roy (Sydney George), Baron Hattersley of Sparkbrook. born 1932, British Labour politician; deputy leader of the Labour Party (1983–92); shadow home secretary (1980–83; 1987–92)
- hawk's-eye — a dark-blue chatoyant quartz formed by the silicification of crocidolite, used for ornamental purposes. Compare tiger's-eye (def 1).
- headlessly — In a headless way.
- heavy spar — barite.
- heedlessly — careless; thoughtless; unmindful: Heedless of the danger, he returned to the burning building to save his dog.
- helplessly — unable to help oneself; weak or dependent: a helpless invalid.
- hematocyst — a cyst containing blood.
- hemicycles — Plural form of hemicycle.
- hemizygous — an individual having only one of a given pair of genes.
- hemolysins — Plural form of hemolysin.
- hemoptysis — the expectoration of blood or bloody mucus.
- hesitantly — hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined.
- hesitatory — Hesitating.
- heterocyst — one of the enlarged nitrogen-fixing cells occurring along the filaments in some blue-green algae.
- heteronyms — Plural form of heteronym.
- hexagynous — (of a plant) having six pistils
- hey presto — magician's conjuring words
- hieronymus — Eusebius [yoo-see-bee-uh s] /yuˈsi bi əs/ (Show IPA), Jerome, Saint.
- high style — the most up-to-date, elegant, or exclusive fashion, especially in clothing.
- high-style — of or relating to style, fashion, or design that is the most up-to-date and, often, most costly
- hinayanist — a Buddhist of the Hinayana school.
- 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.
- histiocyte — A stationary phagocytic cell present in connective tissue.
- histolysis — disintegration or dissolution of organic tissues.
- hla system — human leucocyte antigen system; a group of the most important antigens responsible for tissue compatibility, together with the genes that encode them. For tissue and organ transplantation to be successful there needs to be a minimum number of HLA differences between the donor's and recipient's tissue
- hobbyhorse — a stick with a horse's head, or a rocking horse, ridden by children.
- hollyhocks — Plural form of hollyhock.
- holy cross — Mount of the, a peak in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Range: snow-filled, cross-shaped crevasses. 14,005 feet (4269 meters).
- holy ghost — the third person of the Trinity.
- holy grass — any of several fragrant grasses of the genus Hierochloë, especially H. odorata, the vanilla grass.
- holy moses — expressing surprise or shock
- holy synod — the governing council of an autocephalous church, composed of bishops and presided over by the patriarch or another prelate.