15-letter words containing t, r, i, e, h, y
- green with envy — If you say that someone is green with envy, you mean that they are very envious indeed.
- griffith-joyner — Florence, known as Flojo. 1959–98, US sprinter, winner of two gold medals at the 1988 Olympic Games
- hair hygrometer — a hygrometer actuated by the changes in length of a strand of human hair brought about by changes in the relative humidity.
- hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
- heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- heavy artillery — guns and howitzers of large caliber.
- heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
- heliocentricity — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
- heliometrically — By means of, or in terms of, heliometry.
- hematoporphyria — porphyria.
- hematoporphyrin — a porphyrin made by treating haemoglobin with acid, used to treat cancer in photodynamic therapy
- hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
- hemicryptophyte — any perennial plant that bears its overwintering buds at soil level, where they are often partly covered by surface debris
- hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heterocercality — the condition or state of having a heterocercal tail
- heterosexuality — sexual feeling or behavior directed toward a person or persons of the opposite sex.
- holocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having only crystalline components and no glass
- honey tangerine — a citrus fruit with a deep-orange pulp, formed by crossing a tangerine and a sweet orange hybrid; Murcott
- honeycomb tripe — a part of the inner lining of the stomach of the steer, calf, hog, or sheep, resembling a honeycomb in appearance and considered a table delicacy.
- horse artillery — cavalry equipped with artillery
- hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
- hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
- hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- hyper-energetic — possessing or exhibiting energy, especially in abundance; vigorous: an energetic leader.
- hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
- hyperactiveness — The state or quality of being hyperactive.
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hypercatalectic — (of a line of verse) containing an additional syllable after the last dipody or foot. Compare acatalectic (def 2), catalectic.
- hypercorrection — the substitution, in an inappropriate context, of a pronunciation, grammatical form, or usage thought by the speaker or writer to be appropriate, resulting usually from overgeneralizing in an effort to replace seemingly incorrect forms with correct ones, as the substitution of between you and I for between you and me, by analogy with you and I as the subject of a sentence.
- hypercritically — In a hypercritical manner.
- hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- hyperexcitement — excessive or extreme excitement
- hyperextensible — Capable of being stretched and extended.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperfemininity — the quality of being feminine; womanliness.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
- hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
- hyperparasitism — an organism that is parasitic on or in another parasite.
- hyperpotassemia — hyperkalemia.
- hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
- hyperreactivity — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hypersensitized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersensitize.
- hyperthyroidism — overactivity of the thyroid gland.
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- hypoproteinemia — an abnormally low concentration of protein in the blood.