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12-letter words containing t, h, y, e

  • here to stay — If you say that something is here to stay, you mean that people have accepted it and it has become a part of everyday life.
  • hereditarily — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
  • heritability — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
  • hermetically — so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
  • hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
  • hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
  • heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
  • heterochrony — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
  • heterocyclic — of or relating to the branch of chemistry dealing with cyclic compounds in which at least one of the ring members is not a carbon atom (contrasted with homocyclic).
  • heterodactyl — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
  • heterogamety — the condition or state of being heterogametic
  • heterography — spelling different from that in current use.
  • heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
  • heterokaryon — a cell containing two or more nuclei of differing genetic constitutions.
  • heteromorphy — (biology) The state or quality of being heteromorphic; heteromorphism.
  • heteronymous — of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
  • heteroplasty — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
  • heteroploidy — (genetics) The state of being heteroploid.
  • heterostyled — (of a plant) having styles of different forms or lengths in the flowers.
  • heterothally — the condition of being heterothallic
  • heterothermy — The possession of characteristics of both poikilothermy and homeothermy.
  • heterotrophy — The state of being a heterotroph.
  • heterozygote — a hybrid containing genes for two unlike forms of a characteristic, and therefore not breeding true to type.
  • heterozygous — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
  • hexadactylic — having six fingers or toes
  • hexahydrates — Plural form of hexahydrate.
  • hi-fi system — a complete system of high-quality sound-reproducing equipment
  • hieratically — In a hieratic way.
  • high density — floppy disk
  • high society — society (def 9).
  • high-density — having a high concentration: entering a high-density market with a new product; high-density lipoprotein.
  • highly rated — generally considered to be of high quality
  • hockey skate — a tubular ice skate having a shorter blade than a racing skate and often having a reinforced shoe for protection.
  • hockey stick — the stick used in field hockey or ice hockey.
  • holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
  • holy thistle — lady's-thistle.
  • home country — the country a person comes from
  • homeotherapy — therapy for a disease by means of an agent that is similar to but not identical with the causative agent of the disease.
  • homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
  • homoiothermy — having a body temperature that is relatively constant and mostly independent of the temperature of the environment; warm-blooded (opposed to poikilothermic).
  • honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
  • honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
  • honor system — a system whereby the students at a school, the inmates in a prison, etc., are put on their honor to observe certain rules in order to minimize administrative supervision or to promote honesty.
  • hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
  • hydrastinine — a white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid, C 11 H 13 NO 3 , synthesized from hydrastine: used to arrest bleeding, especially in the uterus.
  • hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
  • hydroculture — A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
  • hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
  • hydrogenated — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
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