10-letter words containing t, o, h, y
- half story — a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
- halloysite — a refractory clay mineral similar in composition to kaolinite.
- halophytes — Plural form of halophyte.
- halophytic — Growing well under salty conditions.
- haplotypes — Plural form of haplotype.
- hateworthy — Worthy of being hated, detestable, despicable.
- hatha yoga — (in Yoga) a method utilizing physical exercises to control the body and attain union of the self with the Supreme Being.
- hatha-yoga — (in Yoga) a method utilizing physical exercises to control the body and attain union of the self with the Supreme Being.
- heliolatry — worship of the sun.
- heliometry — The measurement of the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc.
- heliophyte — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
- heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
- hematocyst — a cyst containing blood.
- hematocyte — hemocyte.
- hematology — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- hemelytron — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
- hemizygote — an individual having only one of a given pair of genes.
- hemoptysis — the expectoration of blood or bloody mucus.
- heortology — the study of the history and significance of the feasts and seasons in the ecclesiastical calendar.
- hepatocyte — a cell of the main tissue of the liver; liver cell.
- hepatology — (medicine) The study or treatment of the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.
- herniotomy — correction of a hernia by a cutting procedure.
- hesitatory — Hesitating.
- heterocyst — one of the enlarged nitrogen-fixing cells occurring along the filaments in some blue-green algae.
- heterodoxy — heterodox state or quality.
- heterodyne — noting or pertaining to a method of changing the frequency of an incoming radio signal by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals.
- heterogamy — heterogamous state.
- heterogeny — the condition or state of being heterogenous
- heterogony — the alternation of dioecious and hermaphroditic individuals in successive generations, as in certain nematodes.
- heterology — Biology. the lack of correspondence of apparently similar organic structures as the result of unlike origins of constituent parts.
- heteronomy — the condition of being under the domination of an outside authority, either human or divine.
- heteronyms — Plural form of heteronym.
- hey presto — magician's conjuring words
- hierolatry — worship or veneration of saints or sacred things.
- hippolytus — Also, Hippolytos [hi-pol-i-tuh s, -tos] /hɪˈpɒl ɪ təs, -ˌtɒs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. the son of Theseus who was falsely accused by his stepmother, Phaedra, of raping her after he had rejected her advances and who was killed by Poseidon in response to the plea of Theseus.
- histiocyte — A stationary phagocytic cell present in connective tissue.
- histolysis — disintegration or dissolution of organic tissues.
- holophytic — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- holy ghost — the third person of the Trinity.
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- holystoned — Simple past tense and past participle of holystone.
- holystones — Plural form of holystone.
- home study — instruction in a subject given by mail and addressed to a student's home.
- homeopathy — the method of treating disease by drugs, given in minute doses, that would produce in a healthy person symptoms similar to those of the disease (opposed to allopathy).
- homeotypic — of or relating to the second division in meiosis.
- homoblasty — the state of being homoblastic
- homonymity — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air; a homophone (def 1).
- homostyled — (of a plant) having styles of the same form or length in all flowers.
- homozygote — an organism with identical pairs of genes with respect to any given pair of hereditary characters, and therefore breeding true for that character.
- honeyeater — An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar.