14-letter words containing t, h, y, o
- hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- hypermodernist — a person who adheres to hypermodernism
- hyperosteogeny — excessive bone development.
- hyperoxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- hypersecretion — an excessive secretion.
- hypersomnolent — sleepy; drowsy.
- hypertrichosis — excessive growth of hair.
- hypertrophical — relating to hypertrophy
- hypertrophying — abnormal enlargement of a part or organ; excessive growth.
- hyperviscosity — the abnormal thickening of a liquid
- hypnotherapist — A practitioner of hypnotherapy.
- hypocoristical — (rare) synonym of hypocoristic.
- hypocritically — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
- hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
- hypophysectomy — excision of the pituitary gland.
- hypopotassemia — hypokalemia.
- hypostatically — In a hypostatic manner.
- hypothalamus's — a region of the brain, between the thalamus and the midbrain, that functions as the main control center for the autonomic nervous system by regulating sleep cycles, body temperature, appetite, etc., and that acts as an endocrine gland by producing hormones, including the releasing factors that control the hormonal secretions of the pituitary gland.
- hypothetically — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.
- hypothyroidism — deficient activity of the thyroid gland.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
- hysterectomies — Plural form of hysterectomy.
- hysterectomise — Alt form hysterectomize.
- hysterectomize — to remove the uterus from by surgery.
- hysteroscopies — Plural form of hysteroscopy.
- iatrochemistry — (in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
- ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
- ichthyolatrous — relating to the worship of fish or divination by means of fish parts
- ichthyological — Of or pertaining to ichthyology. Adjective form of ichthyology.
- ichthyophagist — a person who eats or subsists on fish.
- ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
- ichthyosaurian — (paleontology) Of or relating to the Ichthyosauria.
- idiopathically — In an idiopathic sense or manner.
- immethodically — Unmethodically.
- in all honesty — You say in all honesty when you are saying something that might be disappointing or upsetting, and you want to soften its effect by emphasizing your sincerity.
- isothiocyanate — a chemical compound containing the univalent radical –NCS.
- jelly doughnut — a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.
- just/you watch — You say to someone 'you watch' or 'just watch' when you are predicting that something will happen, and you are very confident that it will happen as you say.
- kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
- keynote speech — opening address at a conference
- kinetic theory — the theory that the minute particles of all matter are in constant motion and that the temperature of a substance is dependent on the velocity of this motion, increased motion being accompanied by increased temperature: according to the kinetic theory of gases, the elasticity, diffusion, pressure, and other physical properties of a gas are due to the rapid motion in straight lines of its molecules, to their impacts against each other and the walls of the container, to weak cohesive forces between molecules, etc.
- knotty rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
- labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
- lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
- lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- leucocythaemia — leukaemia
- leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
- lithologically — From a lithological point of view.