10-letter words containing t, a, c, h, y
- haemolytic — of or relating to the disintegration of red blood cells
- halophytic — Growing well under salty conditions.
- haptically — By means of touch.
- hectically — characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement, etc.: The week before the trip was hectic and exhausting.
- hematocyst — a cyst containing blood.
- hematocyte — hemocyte.
- hepatocyte — a cell of the main tissue of the liver; liver cell.
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- heterarchy — (uncountable) The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.
- himyaritic — of or relating to the Himyarites and to the remains of their civilization.
- hyacinthin — phenylacetaldehyde.
- hyacinthus — a youth loved but accidentally killed by Apollo: from the youth's blood sprang the hyacinth.
- hycanthone — A particular schistosomicide, a metabolite of lucanthone.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hypoactive — Less than normally active.
- hypocausts — Plural form of hypocaust.
- hypostatic — of or relating to a hypostasis; fundamental.
- hypotactic — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- hysterical — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- inchoately — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- land yacht — a wind-driven vehicle with a mast and sails, having three wheels, a single seat, and a steering wheel, used especially on beaches and other sandy areas.
- lathyritic — Of or pertaining to lathyrism.
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- match play — play in which the score is reckoned by counting the holes won by each side.
- matriarchy — a family, society, community, or state governed by women.
- merchantry — (dated) The body of merchants taken collectively.
- metaphysic — metaphysics.
- myasthenic — Of, pertaining to, or suffering from myasthenia.
- mythically — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- mythoclast — a destroyer or debunker of myths.
- nonstarchy — Alternative spelling of non-starchy.
- notch baby — a person who was born in the U.S. between 1917 and 1921 and as a retiree received lower cost-of-living increases in Social Security than others after Congress readjusted Social Security benefits in 1977.
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
- phagocytic — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phatically — in a phatic manner
- photically — in a photic manner, by way of photic processes
- phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.