9-letter words containing s, h, y
- happyness — Misspelling of happiness.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- hastately — in a hastate manner
- hatchways — Plural form of hatchway.
- hawkishly — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- hay shock — a haycock.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.
- haymakers — Plural form of haymaker.
- haystacks — Plural form of haystack.
- heavy-set — Someone who is heavy-set has a large solid body.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- hellishly — In a hellish manner.
- hemocytes — Plural form of hemocyte.
- hemolysin — a substance, as an antibody, that in cooperation with complement causes dissolution of red blood cells.
- hemolysis — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- hendiadys — a figure in which a complex idea is expressed by two words connected by a copulative conjunction: “to look with eyes and envy” instead of “with envious eyes.”.
- hennishly — in a hennish manner
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesychast — one of a sect of mystics that originated in the 14th century among the monks on Mt. Athos, Greece.
- hexastyle — having six columns, as a portico or the facade of a classical temple.
- heyrovsky — Jaroslav [yah-raw-slahf] /ˈyɑ rɔ slɑf/ (Show IPA), 1890–1967, Czech chemist: Nobel Prize 1959.
- hicks yew — a hybrid yew, Taxus media hicksii, having a columnar manner of growth.
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- hideosity — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hideously — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hideyoshi — Toyotomi [taw-yaw-taw-mee] /ˈtɔ yɔˈtɔ mi/ (Show IPA), 1536–98, Japanese general and statesman: prime minister and dictator of Japan 1585–98.
- 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).
- hircosity — the quality of being like a goat
- hissingly — in a hissing manner
- hissy fit — Slang. a fit of anger; temper tantrum.
- histology — the branch of biology dealing with the study of tissues.
- historify — to make something part of history or to tell the history of something
- hobbyists — Plural form of hobbyist.
- hobbyless — without any hobby or hobbies
- hoggishly — In a hoggish manner.
- hokeyness — Alternative form of hokiness.
- hold sway — have influence
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- 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.
- holystone — a block of soft sandstone used in scrubbing the decks of a ship.
- home keys — (hardware) The eight keys on a typewriter or computer keyboard on which a touch-typist positions their eight finger tips when starting to type or when resting between words or phrases. Typists learn the position of all keys on the keyboard in relation to the home keys. On a standard english keyboard layout, the home keys are ASDF for the left hand and JKL; for the right. Most keyboards have small raised bumps on the left and right index finger keys (F and J) so you can find the home keys by touch without looking.
- homestays — Plural form of homestay.
- homestyle — simple and unpretentious, evoking the comforts of home: homestyle cooking; home-style hospitality.
- homeyness — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
- homolysis — (chemistry) The decomposition of a substance without reacting with other substances.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- homospory — the production of a single kind of spore, neither microspore nor megaspore.
- homostyly — (in plants) the condition of having all the flowers with styles of only one length, rather than of different lengths
- honeybees — Plural form of honeybee.
- honeydews — Plural form of honeydew.