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

  • hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
  • hen party — a party or gathering for women only.
  • heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
  • heptapody — a verse with seven metrical feet
  • heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
  • hercynite — a black oxide mineral, FeAl 2 O 4 , of the spinel group.
  • heritably — In a heritable manner.
  • hermatype — reef-building coral.
  • heroicity — suitable to the character of a hero in size or concept; daring; noble: a heroic ambition.
  • 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.
  • heteronym — a word spelled the same as another but having a different sound and meaning, as lead (to conduct) and lead (a metal).
  • hexastyle — having six columns, as a portico or the facade of a classical temple.
  • hideosity — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
  • himyarite — one of an ancient people of southern Arabia speaking a Semitic language.
  • holophyte — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
  • holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
  • holy tide — a time or season for special religious observance
  • holystone — a block of soft sandstone used in scrubbing the decks of a ship.
  • homestays — Plural form of homestay.
  • homestyle — simple and unpretentious, evoking the comforts of home: homestyle cooking; home-style hospitality.
  • homothety — similar; similarly placed.
  • honey ant — any of several ants, especially of the genus Myrmecocystus, that feed on honeydew or nectar and store the excess juices in the bodies of certain worker ants.
  • honey pot — any of a caste of workers in certain species of ants, that serve as living storehouses for a honeylike material later used by the whole colony
  • honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
  • honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
  • honeywort — a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.
  • horometry — The art or practice of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions.
  • hostilely — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
  • hot money — funds transferred suddenly from one country to another chiefly to avoid depreciation in value or to take advantage of higher interest rates.
  • huckstery — the business of a huckster
  • hybernate — Obsolete spelling of hibernate.
  • hydathode — a specialized leaf structure through which water is exuded.
  • hydrolyte — a substance subjected to hydrolysis.
  • hyetology — the branch of meteorology dealing with precipitation.
  • hygienist — an expert in hygiene.
  • hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
  • hylophyte — a plant that grows in woods
  • hymettian — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens. 3370 feet (1027 meters).
  • hypermart — a very large, discount supermarket with a maximum range of products including groceries, apparel and general household goods
  • hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
  • hypertext — a method of storing data through a computer program that allows a user to create and link fields of information at will and to retrieve the data nonsequentially.
  • hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
  • hyphenate — to join by a hyphen.
  • hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
  • hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
  • hypnotize — to put in the hypnotic state.
  • hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
  • hypostome — any of several parts or organs of the mouth, as the labrum of a crustacean.
  • hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
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