9-letter words containing s, h, y
- honeyless — without any honey
- honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
- horoscopy — Archaic. the casting or taking of horoscopes.
- horse fly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hostilely — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- hostility — a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
- houseboys — Plural form of houseboy.
- hoydenish — a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy.
- hoydenism — The behaviour of a hoyden.
- huckstery — the business of a huckster
- hugeously — hugely
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hushpuppy — a snack of deep-fried cornmeal bread
- hyacinths — Plural form of hyacinth.
- hybridise — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
- hybridism — Also, hybridity [hahy-brid-i-tee] /haɪˈbrɪd ɪ ti/ (Show IPA). the quality or condition of being hybrid.
- hybridist — someone who hybridizes or cross-breeds (animals or plants)
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- hybristic — hubris.
- 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.
- hydro-ski — a hydrofoil attached to a seaplane to aid in takeoffs and landings.
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hydrogels — Plural form of hydrogel.
- hydrogens — Plural form of hydrogen.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hydrolyse — Alternative spelling of hydrolyze.
- hydroseed — to sow (a field, lawn, etc.) with seed by distribution in a stream of water propelled through a hose.
- hydrosere — a sere originating in water.
- hydrosols — Plural form of hydrosol.
- hydrosoma — hydrosome.
- hydrosome — the entire body of a compound hydrozoan.
- hydrostat — an electrical device for detecting the presence of water, as from overflow or leakage.
- hygienics — hygiene (def 1).
- hygienist — an expert in hygiene.
- hygristor — an electronic component the resistance of which varies with humidity
- hygrostat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hylozoism — the doctrine that matter is inseparable from life, which is a property of matter.
- hymeneals — (plurale tantum) Nuptials.
- hymnbooks — Plural form of hymnbook.
- hymnodies — Plural form of hymnody.
- hymnodist — the singing or the composition of hymns or sacred songs.
- 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.
- hypernews — A Hypertext system from the Turing Institute Glasgow, based on NeWS.